#HistoricalEvents #ThisDayInHistory
1972 – UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
1975 – Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
1977 – Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
1979 – Seychelles adopts constitution1981 – Aid Epidemic officially begins when US Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men
This Day in History 05/06
1661 – Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1806 – Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1833 – Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
1849 – Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1873 – Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1967 – 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1972 – UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
1975 – Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
1977 – Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
1979 – Seychelles adopts constitution
1981 – Aid Epidemic officially begins when US Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1993 – Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550…
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