THIS DAY IN HISTORY 02/04

This Day In History 02/04

APRIL 2ND

1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29.

1513 – Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon

1827 – Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils

1917 – Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) begins her term as 1st woman member of US House of Reps

1935 – Sir Robert Watson-Watt patents RADAR

1958 – National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA

1966 – Soviet Union’s Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon

1970 – Qatar gains independence from Britain

1987 – IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2

2005 – James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event.

2013 – The UN General Assembly approves the first Arms Trade Treaty

2013 – Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Venice, Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover

1939 – Marvin Gaye (Jr), Wash DC, singer (Sexual Healing)

1975 – Adam Rodriguez, American actor

FAMOUS DEATHS

1754 – Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)

1872 – Samuel Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80

1902 – Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)

1974 – Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62

1997 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86

FAMOUS WEDDING

1836 – English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens (24) marries Catherine Thomson Hogarth (20)

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