THIS DAY IN YESTERYEARS 04/06

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 04/06

1984: American musician Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A., which became one of his defining works.

1970:The Kingdom of Tonga achieved independence within the British Commonwealth.

1942:Japan was repulsed by the United States at the Battle of Midway in World War II.

1940:During World War II the evacuation of Dunkirk, France, came to an end, having saved 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops.

1920:The Treaty of Trianon was signed by representatives of Hungary on one side and the Allied powers on the other, concluding World War I.

1833:British Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, whose most brilliant campaign involved seizing the Suez Canal and, after a night march, surprising and defeating ʿUrābī Pasha at Al-Tall al-Kabīr (September 13, 1882), was born.

1796:Napoleon Bonaparte commanded the Siege of Mantua, which resulted in the exclusion of Austrians from northern Italy.

1783:Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier launched an unmanned hot-air balloon, the first public demonstration of the discovery that hot air in a large lightweight bag rises.

 

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 09/05

This Day in History 09/05

MAY 9TH

1785 – British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle

1788 – British parliament accepts abolition of slave trade

1868 – The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.

1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.

1899 – Lawn mower patented

1927 – Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia

1945 – Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)

1955 – German Federal Republic joins NATO

1960 – Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth

1988 – Australia’s new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth II

1988 – Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms

1988 – The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.

2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.

2005 – Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched

2006 – Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.

2006 – George Preca is canonised as the first Maltese saint in history.

2012 – A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board

2012 – United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same sex marriage

2013 – Everton Manager David Moyes is announced to become Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor at Manchester United (he only lasted 10 month

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1793 – Johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist

1800 – John Brown, Torrington, Connecticut, American revolutionary abolitionist (d. 1859)

1873 – Howard Carter, London, British archaeologist and egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen’s tomb)

1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, Sprout Brook NY, ship builder and industrialist (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam)

1918 – Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes), (d. 2012)

1949 – Billy Joel, Bronx, rock vocalist (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1978 – Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization Red Brigades at 61

1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and steel magnate, dies at 95

1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71

1987 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian Nationalist dies at 78

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