This day in #History 2910

This day in #history 2910

October 29th

529 BC – The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.

1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

1665 – Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..

1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.

1682 – William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania

1794 – French troops occupies Venlo
1811 – 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

1833 – 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded

1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.

1863 – Intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)

1864 – Greek parliament accept new Constitution

1867 – Mail packets “Rhone” & “Wye” capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands

1872 – J S Risdon patents metal windmill

1881 – Judge (U.S. magazine) first published.

1888 – Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company

1889 – Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia

1889 – Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC

1894 – 1st election of Hawaiian Republic

1915 – Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia

1945 – 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented

1958 – Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1964 – United Rep of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania

This Day in #History 2410

This day in #History
October 24th

1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz , Mamluk sultan of Egypt , is
assassinated by Baibars , who seizes power for
himself.

1260 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is
dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France ;
the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais,
marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred
Years’ War .

1492 – 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany

1531 – Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union

1648 – Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year’s War in the Holy Roman Empire

1648 – Switzerland ‘s independence recognized in the Treaty of Westphalia

1812 – Napoleonic Wars : The Battle of
Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow .

1861 – West Virginia seceded from Virginia

1882 -Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

1922 – Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State

1924 – Nobel prize for fysiologie /medicine awarded to W Einthoven

1945 – UN charter comes into effect

1964 – Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia

1964 – Zambia ( N Rhodesia ) gains independence from Britain (National Day )

1970 – Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile

1973 – Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1930 – Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia

1932 – Pierre – Gilles de Gennes , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d . 2007)

1932 – Robert Mundell , Kingston, Ontario, economist and Nobel laureate (1999 )

FAMOUS DEATHS

1842 – Bernardo O ‘Higgins , Chilean independence
leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule , dies at 64

2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras
(b . 1926 )

2005 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights
activist ( b . 1913)

2005 – Immanuel C. Y. Hsu ,
scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history ( b.1923)

2005 -2005 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist ( b . 1913)

2005 –
Mokarrameh Ghanbari , Iranian painter (b . 1928 )

2006 – Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist
(b . 1904 )

2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies
scholar, orientalist and historian (b . 1909)