THIS DAY IN HISTORY 24/03

This day in #history 24/03

MARCH 24TH

1924 – Greece becomes a republic

1930 – Planet Pluto named

1941 – British troops defeat British Somalia

1941 – German troops occupy El Agheila Libya

1952 – Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa

1959 – The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.

1972 – Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland

1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1733 – Joseph Priestley, England, Birstall England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)

1834 – John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist

1866 – Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer

1874 – Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist

1912 – Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women, Richmond, Virginia, American civil rights and women’s rights activist

1947 – Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)

1965 – The Undertaker, American professional wrestler

1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer

FAMOUS DEATHS

1603 – Elizabeth I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies at 69

1969 – Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55

1994 – Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81

FAMOUS WEDDING

1952 – Author of ‘James Bond’ novels, journalist and secret intelligence agent Ian Fleming marries Anne Geraldine Charteris

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 23/03

This day in #History 23/03

MARCH 23RD

1879 – War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country.

1881 – Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war

1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.

1918 – Lithuania proclaims independence

1919 – Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy

1934 – US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945

1950 – UN World Meteorological Org established

1956 – Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day)

1956 – Sudan becomes independent

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)

FAMOUS DEATHS

2012 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia, dies from liver failure at 77

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