THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 31/01

This day in #history 31/01

JANUARY 31ST

1851 – Gail Borden announces invention of
evaporated milk

1901 – Boer general John Smuts & De la Rey
conqueror Mud river Transvaal

1925 – Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president
of Angola

1929 – Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to
Turkey

1946 – Yugoslavia adopts new constitution,
becomes a federal republic

1968 – Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares
independence from Australia

1972 – Military coup ousts civilian government of
Ghana

1985 – South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1919 – Jackie Robinson, Ga, 1st black major league baseball player (Dodgers)

1931 – Bill Watson , cricketer (NSW & Australian
opening batsman mid -50s

1981 – Justin Timberlake , Memphis, Tennessee, singer- songwriter (Sexyback, My Love)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1888 – John Bosco , Italian priest, youth worker,
educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b .
1815)

1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian- born imam (b .
1935)

2007 – Adelaide Tambo , South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b . 1929

THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 30/01

This day in #history 30/01
JANUARY 30TH

1648 – Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of
Munster, ending the Thirty Years War

1661 – Oliver Cromwell , Lord Protector of the
Commonwealth of England is ritually executed
after having been dead for two years.

1820 – Edward Bransfield aboard Williams
discovers Antarctica (UK claim )

1892 – Capt Lugard occupies Uganda’s King
Mwanga’s hide out

1979 – Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) agrees to new
constitution

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1882 – Franklin Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY , 32nd US President (1933 -1945 ), (d . 1945 )

1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist
and novelist ( d. 1937 )

1905 – Emilio G . Segrè, Tivoli, Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub – atomic antiparticle antiproton)

1930 – Magnus Adem Malan, South African
minister of Defense ( 1980- )

1930 – Gene Hackman, San Bernardino California , actor (Bonnie & Clyde , Under Fire, Superman)

1938 – Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan

1941 – Dick Cheney , Lincoln, Nebraska, 46th US Vice President

1947 – Les Barker, English poet

1949 – Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate

FAMOUS DEATHS

1649 – Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625 -49) , beheaded for treason

1836 – Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom ],
seamstress widely credited with making the first
American flag ( b. 1752)

1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, India political and spiritual leader, assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu extremists

1948 – Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer , dies at 76

2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern
neurosurgery (b . 1915)

2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b . 1917 )