THIS DAY IN HISTORY 29/06

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 29/06 JUNE 29TH

 

1880 – France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)

 

1949 – South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

 

1976 – Seychelles gains independence from Britain

 

1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.

 

1990 – World’s first female diocesan Anglican bishop appointed, New Zealand

 

2008 – Thomas Beatie, the world’s first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.

 

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

 

 

1930 – Robert Evans, NYC, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)

 

 

1943 – Little Eva (Eva Boyd), Belhaven, North Carolina, American pop singer (Locomotion)

 

1947 – Richard Lewis, NYC, comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love)

 

 

FAMOUS DEATHS

 

1923 – Fritz Mauthner, German author/phitlosopher (skepticism), dies at 73

 

 

1969 – Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire

 

 

1992 – Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated

 

1995 – Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75

 

 

 

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 05/06

This Day in History 05/06

JUNE 5TH

1661 – Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1806 – Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland

1833 – Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage

1849 – Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy

1873 – Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar

1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.

1967 – 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin

1972 – UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm

1975 – Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)

1977 – Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
1979 – Seychelles adopts constitution

1981 – Aid Epidemic officially begins when US Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men

1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

1993 – Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives

2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

2013 – Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1723 – Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scotland, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)

1941 – Spalding Gray, RI, actor (Beaches, Clara’s Heart, Heavy Petting)

1949 – Ken Follett, Cardiff, Wales, spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions)

1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros

1971 – Mark Wahlberg, Boston, Massachusetts, rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence

1900 – Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28

1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)

1994 – Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67

2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President, Governor of California and radio and film actor, dies aged 93

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