THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 02/02

This day in #history 02/02

FEBRUARY 2ND

1653 – New Amsterdam becomes a city (later
renamed New York )

1787 – Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9 th President of the President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation.

1863 – Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for
1st time

1946 – The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is
made .

1967 – Bolivia adopts its constitution

1971 – Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become
dictator of Uganda

1990 – South Africa’s Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs

1995 – US space shuttle Discovery launched

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1882 – James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/ poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan’s Wake )

1963 – Eva Cassidy, American singer ( d. 1996 )

1977 – Shakira [Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll] , Barranquilla, Colombian pop singer (‘ Whenever Wherever’, ‘Waka Waka ( This Time for Africa

FAMOUS DEATHS

1461 – Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor
dynasty of England

1804 – Caesar Rodney , US judge ( signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62

1804 – George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence ( b. 1749 -50)

1973 – Henry J Elias, Flemish historian /mayor of
Gent, dies at 70

1979 – Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie] , bassist (Sex Pistols) , OD’ s at 31

FAMOUS WEDDING

Sarkozy ( 53) weds supermodel- turned- singer
Carla Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris ,
France

This day in #History 2310

This day in #History
October 23rd

1927 – Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan
Straus

1946 – UN General Assembly 2 nd session convenes (1 st NYC- Flushing Meadows )

1947 – NAACP petition on racism, “An Appeal to the World” presented to UN

1947 – Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1 st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes

1953 – France grants Laos ‘ sovereignty

1953 – German FR applies to NATO

1954 – Britain , England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany

1954 – German FR joins NATO

1954 – Pakistan governor- general Ghoelan
Mohammed disbands parliament

56 – Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in
Hungary

1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation . (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4)

1958 – De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance “peace of the brave ”

1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1973 – UN ‘s revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted

1977 – Panamanians vote 2 :1 to approve new Canal treaties

1977 – Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces
that 34- billion-year- old one -celled fossils, the
earliest life forms , had been discovered

1978 – China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of
dissension

1989 – Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended

1998 – Israeli – Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a “land for
peace ” agreement.

2001 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks .

2001 – Apple releases the iPod.

2009 – The United Nations ” Rotterdam Rules ”
convention regulating international maritime carriage of goods is ratified with its twentieth signature

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1940 – Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento] , Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Brazilian footballer (Player of the Century – 1281 goals in 1363 games)

1942 – Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist (Andromeda Strain , Congo, Looker), (d . 2008)

1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo

1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan

FAMOUS DEATHS

1928 – F A Alphonse Aulard , French historian, dies

1929 – Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of
historiography), dies at 74

1957 – Christian Dior, French designer
(New Look ), dies at 52 of a heart attack

1986 – Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K
(Nobel 1943 ), dies at 92

2011 – John McCarthy , American computer scientist
and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence ,
inventor of the Lisp programming language .( b . 1927