This Day In History 02/04
APRIL 2ND
1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29.
1513 – Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1827 – Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1917 – Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) begins her term as 1st woman member of US House of Reps
1935 – Sir Robert Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1958 – National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1966 – Soviet Union’s Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1970 – Qatar gains independence from Britain
1987 – IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
2005 – James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event.
2013 – The UN General Assembly approves the first Arms Trade Treaty
2013 – Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Venice, Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover
1939 – Marvin Gaye (Jr), Wash DC, singer (Sexual Healing)
1975 – Adam Rodriguez, American actor
FAMOUS DEATHS
1754 – Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
1872 – Samuel Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
1902 – Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
1974 – Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62
1997 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86
FAMOUS WEDDING
1836 – English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens (24) marries Catherine Thomson Hogarth (20)
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