THIS DAY IN HISTORY 15/04

This Day in History 15/04

APRIL 15TH

1865 – Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen

1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics

1955 – Ray Kroc starts McDonald’s chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)

1964 – Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia

1974 – Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed

1992 – The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

2010 – Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary

1800 – James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)

1894 – Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64)

1912 – Kim II Sung, Eternal President (“The Great Leader”) of North Korea (1945-94)

1943 – Robert Lefkowitz, NYC, New York, American physician (Nobel Prize for Chemistry)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56

1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74

1990 – Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84

FAMOUS WEDDING

1978 – Novelist Danielle Steel (30) weds William George Toth

1989 – South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries

2006 – Miss Nigeria 2002 Sylvia Ansa Edem weds businessman Chris Emecheta at the the Recreation Park, Victoria Garden City, Lekki Lagos

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 14/04

This Day in History 14/04

APRIL 14TH

1611 – Word “telescope” is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi

1828 – First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication

1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.

1962 – Georges Pompidou becomes president of France

1971 – Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site

1971 – President Nixon ends blockade against People’s Republic of China

1986 – Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown

1992 – UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect

2002 – 66th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win in two consecutive years

2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1886 – Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian

1889 – Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)

1892 – Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian

1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy

FAMOUS DEATHS

1915 – James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies

1993 – Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death

1994 – Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered

2006 – Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)

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