This day in #history 08/02
FEBRUARY 8TH
1849 – New Roman Republic established.
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the
United Kingdom
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
issued an Order- in -Council , stating that she and
her family would be known as the House of
Windsor, and that her descendants will take the
name “Mountbatten – Windsor”.
1978 – Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al – Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
1979 – Denis Sassou -Nguesso became the
President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1612 – Samuel Butler, England, poet/ satirist
(Hudibras ) ( baptized)
1649 – Gabriel Daniel , French Jesuit historian (d .
1728)
1883 – Joseph A Schumpeter, Austria/ US
economist/ minister of finance
1906 – Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy )
1955 – John Grisham, writer (Client , Firm, Pelican Brief)
FAMOUS DEATHS
1725 – Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ], tsar of Russia (1682 -1725 ) dies of uremia at 52
1956 – Connie Mack , baseball manager (Phila A ‘s , 1901- 50), dies at 93
1963 – George Dolenz, Italian actor ( Count of
Monte Cristo) , dies at 55
1985 – William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer, dies at 84
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