THIS DAY IN #HISTORY1811

This day in #history 1811
NOVEMBER 18th

326 – Old St. Peter ‘s Basilica is consecrated. Stood 4th – 16 th century . Replaced by current St Peter’ s Basilica in Rome .

794 – Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates
residence of Nara to Kioto

1494 – French king Charles VIII occupies Florence

1497 – Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope

1626 – St. Peter’ s Basilica is consecrated. Replaced an earlier basilica . Largest Christian basilica

1820 – Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt
Nathaniel B Palmer

1956 – Morocco gains independence

1992 – ” Malcolm X ” with Denzel Washington
premieres in US

1993 – Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1785 – David Wilkie , British artist ( d. 1841 )

1787 – Sojourner Truth [ Isabella Baumfree ],
Swartekill, New York , US abolitionist/ feminist

1835 – Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) , died in 1904

FAMOUS DEATHS

1886 – Chester A Arthur , 21st pres (1881 – 85), dies in
NY at 56

1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom , Nobel 1922) , dies at 77

Famous Weddings

2006 – American film actor and producer Tom Cruise
(44) weds actress Katie Holmes (27) at Odescalchi
Castle in Bracciano, Italy

This day in #History 1711

This day in #history 1711
NOVEMBER 17th

1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela were separatedm from Greater Colombia .

1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present- day Zambia- Zimbabwe.

1903 – Dahomey ( Benin ) becomes a French
protectorate.

1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union , opens trade

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

FAMOUS DEATHS

1796 – Catherine the Great
[Catherine II ], Empress of Russia (1762 -96) , dies of a stroke at 67

Famous Weddings

1934 – Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor