THIS DAY IN HISTORY 07/04

This Day in History 07/04 APRIL 7TH

95 – France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.

1798 – Mississippi Territory organized

1902 – Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms

1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

1934 – In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience

1940 – 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T. Washington)

1941 – British generals O’Connor & Neame captured in North Africa

1946 – Syria’s independence from France is officially recognised.

1948 – World Health Organization forms by UN

1953 – Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary

1956 – Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco

1963 – Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic

1992 – Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.

2012 – Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1770 – William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)

1926 – Johannes Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)

1927 – Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)

1954 – Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)

1964 – Russell Crowe, Wellington, New Zealand, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1972 – Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered

1972 – Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65

FAMOUS WEDDING

1921 – French president Charles de Gaulle (30) weds Yvonne Vendroux (20)

2003 – Academy Award “Gladiator” actor Russell Crowe (39) weds singer Danielle Spencer (32) at his 560-acre cattle farm in Nana Glen, New South Wales, Australia Adejokeiyabadan’s blogblog

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 18/03

This day in #history 18/03
MARCH 18TH

1325 – According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms.

1793 – The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.

1895 – 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia

1922 – British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience

1962 – Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees

1978 – Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1837 – Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)

1869 – [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)

1938 – Shashi Kapoor, Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust)

1970 – Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)

1979 – Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)

1986 – Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer

FAMOUS DEATHS

1584 – Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53

1947 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)

1965 – Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45

1977 – Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered

2003 – Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)

2008 – Andrew Britton, Author (b. 1981)

2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and fighter ace, dies

FAMOUS WEDDING

1869 – US Abolitionist Harriet Tubman marries civil war veteran Nelson Davis in Auburn NY

1991 – Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell

1993 – Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC

1995 – Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada (31) at the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain

2006 – Television star Adita Wahi weds director Ameet Sawant in New Delhi

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