THIS DAY IN HISTORY 02/05

This Day in History 02/05

MAY 2ND

1885 – Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium



1927 – Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens



1964 – First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.



1990 – South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid



1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union’s monetary policy.



1999 – Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.



2004 – Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.



2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan



2011 – The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.



2012 – Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals



2013 – 60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan



FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS



1729 – Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Stettin, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, Empress of Russia (1762-96)

1892 – Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron], Breslau, German World War I fighter ace



1972 – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor

1975 – David Robert Joseph BeckhamEnglish former footballer

1985 – Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter

FAMOUS DEATHS



1519 – Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67

1957 – Joseph McCarthy, anti-communist US senator (R-Wisc), dies at 48

1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77

2005 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)



2011 – Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and ‘the most wanted man in the world’ (b. 1957)

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 20/02

This day in #history 20/02

FEBRUARY 20TH

1971 – Maj General Idi Amin Dada appoints
himself president of Uganda

1975 – Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party

2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in
a referendum on ratification of the proposed
Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout .

2013 – Kepler -37 b, the smallest known exoplanet,bis discovered

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1951 – Gordon Brown, Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland , British Labour Prime Minister ( 2007– 10)

1988 – Rihanna, Barbadian singer

FAMOUS DEATHS

1895 – Frederick Douglass , escaped slave, anti slavery leader, dies at 77

1907 – Henri Moissan [ Ferdinand- Frederic- ],
chemist (Nobel 1906) , dies at 54