THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 10/02

This day in #history 10/02
FEBRUARY 10TH

1824 – Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru

1931 – New Delhi becomes capital of India

1933 – Hitler proclaims end of Marxism

1940 – Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera
debut by MGM

1943 – ” Manifesto of Algerian People ” calls for
equality & self – determination

1943 – British 8 th Army sweeps through North
Africa to Tunisia

1947 – WW II peace treaties signed

1972 – Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates

1991 – Lithuania votes for independence from
USSR

1996 – IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the. first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human ) chess champion, Gary Kasparov

2013 – Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1 – 0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1974 – Elizabeth Banks, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, American actress (The 40-Year – Old Virgin, Man on a Ledge )

1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer

1984 – Kim Hyo-jin , South Korean actress

1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress

FAMOUS DEATHS
1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b . 1842)

1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84

1923 – Wilhelm Rontgen, German physicist (Nobel 1901) , dies at 77

2002 – Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler ‘s secretary ( b .
1920)

2005 – Arthur Miller , American playwright, dies at 89

THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 29/01

This day in #history 28901
29TH JANUARY

1595 – William Shakespeare ‘s play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.

1613 – Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees

1922 – Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved

1933 – German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor

1968 – Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) adopts
constitution

1986 – Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of
Uganda

1991 – Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1737 – Thomas Paine , political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason )

1843 – William McKinley, Niles Ohio, 25th US President (1897 -1901 ), (d . 1901 )

1873 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi,
Italy, explorer /climber (Mt St Elias )

1926 – Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist

1945 – Tom Selleck, Detroit Mich, actor (Lance- Rockford Files, Magnum PI )

1954 – Oprah Winfrey, Kosciusko Mississippi , Talk show host and actress (‘The Oprah Winfrey Show ‘ ‘Colour Purple’)

1959 – Paul McGann, actor (Dr Who

FAMOUS DEATHS

1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom ( b .
1738) . Reigned 1760- 1820.

1963 – Robert Frost , American poet ( New
Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers ), dies at 88

1991 – Yasushi Inoue , Japanese historian, dies

1995 – Arthur Guy Clutton – Brock, English
agronomist (Rhodesia ) , dies at 88

FAMOUS WEDDING

1839 – English Naturalist and author of Origin of
the Species Charles Darwin marries Emma
Wedgwood