THIS DAY IN HISTORY 21/02

This day in #history 21/02

FEBRUARY 21TH

1795 – Freedom of worship established in France under constitution

1797 – Trinidad, West Indies, surrenders to British

1874 – Benjamin Disraeli succeeds William Gladstone as British premier

1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic
Republic of Georgia adopts the country’s first
constitution.

1922 – Great Britain grants Egypt independence

1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign
national “volunteers ” in the Spanish Civil War.

1974 – Yugoslavia adopts constitution

2004 – The first European political party organization, the European Greens , is established in Rome.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1924 – Robert Mugabe, president (Zimbabwe, 1988- )

1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress (Sarah Reeves – Party of Five)

1989 – Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
@corbinbleu

FAMOUS DEATHS

1941 – Frederick Banting , Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b . 1891 )

1965 – Malcolm X , [Little ], black Moslem leader ,
assassinated in NYC at 39

1968 – Howard Florey, pharmacologist/
Pathologist, Nobel Prize Laureate , dies at 69

THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 2312

This day in #history 2312
DECEMBER 23RD

1776 – Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $ 181 ,500 from France

1876 – Turkey ‘s 1st constitution proclaimed

1899 – British Field Marshall Lord Roberts departs
Southampton to South Africa for the 2 nd Boer War

1922 – BBC Radio began daily newscasts

1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa .

1947 – Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain &
Shockley in Bell Labs

1954 – The first human kidney transplant is
performed by Dr. Joseph E . Murray at Peter Bent
Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

2012 – The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

FAMOUS DEATHS

2001 – Bola Ige, Nigerian politician ( b. 1930)

.FAMOUS WEDDING

2005 – Soccer star player Kaka ( 23) weds Brazilian singer Caroline Celico (18) at Igreja Renascer em Cristo in Sao Paulo , Brazil

2007 – ” Dr. Izzie Stevens ” actress Katherine Heigl (29) weds singer-songwriter Josh Kelley (27) at Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City , Utah