THIS DAY IN HISTORY 24/05

This Day in History 24/05

MAY 24TH

1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.

1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.

1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.

1915 – Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1954 – IBM announces vacuum tube “electronic” brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour

1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha’s Parinibbāna.

1959 – Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in Great Britain

1986 – Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel

1993 – Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war

1999 – Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.

2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

2001 – Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

2001 – The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.

2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.

2004 – North Korea bans mobile phone

2013 – Rafael Correa is sworn into a third term as President of Ecuador

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1753 – Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, decorated black soldier who served with Washington in US War of Independence

1879 – H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese’s and founder (d. 1956

1941 – Bob Dylan, [Robert Zimmerman], Duluth Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin’ in Wind)

1955 – Rosanne Cash, Memphis Tn, country singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder)

1965 – John C. Reilly, Chicago, Illinois, American actor (Chicago, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1543 – Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland aged 70

1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73

1883 – Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808)

1974 – Duke Ellington, American musician, dies of cancer at 75

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 28/02

This day in #history 28/02

FEBRUARY 28TH

1784 – John Wesley charters Methodist Church

1838 – Robert Nelson , leader of the Patriotes ,
proclaims the independence of Lower Canada
(today Québec)

1922 – Egypt regains independence from Britain ,
but British troops remain

1939 – The erroneous word ” Dord” is discovered
in the Webster’ s New International Dictionary ,
Second Edition, prompting an investigation .

1976 – Spain withdraws from Western Sahara

1976 – Ceuta & Melilla ( Spanish Morocco ) are last European African possession

1998 – Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the
offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in
Kosovo

2012 – Discovery of the largest prehistoric
penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1901 – Linus Pauling, Portland, Oregon, American chemist/ peace activist (Nobel 1954, 1962)

1953 – Paul Krugman, American economist and New York Times columnist (Nobel Prize in Economics 2008)

1971 – John Buchanan, actor ( Sidekicks, Black
Stallion, Family Man

2007 – Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco

FAMOUS DEATHS

1510 – Juan de la Cosa , Spanish cartographer and explorer

1525 – Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor (1520 – 1521) , tortured and killed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés

1572 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian ( b. 1505 )

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