This Day in History 07/06
JUNE 7TH
1929 – Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
1929 – Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1955 – 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1990 – South Africa president F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency
1991 – Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1843 – Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
1940 – Tom Jones [Sir Thomas John Woodward], Pontypridd, Welsh singer (What’s New Pussycat)
1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
1983 – Mark Lowe, American baseball player
1985 – Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
FAMOUS DEATHS
1967 – Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73
1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879
1980 – Henry Miller, American artist/author, dies at 88
1994 – Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
1994 – Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
1994 – Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
1995 – Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84
2012 – Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist, dies at 86
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