This day in #history 03/03
MARCH 3RD
1863 – Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1939 – In Mumbai (Bombay), Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest against autocratic rule in India.
1959 – Brit government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1966 – Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee
1977 – Libyan Socialist Arabs People’s Republic forms
1991 – Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 – Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
FAMOUS BIRTHDAY
1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland, inventor (telephone)
1895 – Ragnar Frisch, Oslo, Norwegian economist (1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics-1969)
FAMOUS DEATHS
1703 – Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London aged 67
1191 – Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52
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