This day in #history 02/03
MARCH 2ND
1498 – Vasco da Gama’s fleet visits Mozambique Island
1956 – Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
1970 – Rhodesia becomes independent republic
1992 – Moldova joins the United Nations.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1904 – Dr. Seuss, [Theodor Geisel], children’s author (Horton Hears a Who!)
1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)
1937 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
FAMOUS DEATHS
1791 – John Wesley, English co-founder of Methodism dies at 87 (b. 1703)
1829 – Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez , conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1768)
1930 – David Herbert Lawrence (DH), poet/writer (Lady Chatterley’s Lover), dies at 44
1939 – Howard Carter, Brit archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65
2010 – Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
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