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 1512

This day in #history 1512
DECEMBER 15TH

1791 – 1 st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania

1791 – Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its
approval

1868 – Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in
Hokkaidō.

1877 – Thomas Edison patents phonograph

1891 – James Naismith ilnvents basketball (Canada )

1916 – French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of
Verdun

1917 – Moldavian Republic declare independence from Russia

1917 – World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.

1919 – Fiume (Rijeka) declares it ‘s Independence

1964 – Canada adopts maple leaf flag

1976 – Samoa becomes a member of the UN .

1994 – Palau becomes a member of the UN.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1832 – Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre ], French engineer (Eiffel tower) , ( d. 1923)

1848 – Edwin Howland Blashfield , decorated the
dome of Library of Congress

1852 – Henri Becquerel [ Antoine ], discovered
radioactivity (Nobel 1903) , (d . 1908)

1945 – Michael King, Wellington, New Zealand historian and author (Penguin History of New Zealand)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1950 – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel , Indian political
leader, Iron Man of India (b . 1875)

1951 – Eric Drummond , 1 st sec – gen League of
Nations (1919 -33 ), dies at 75

1966 – Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation

1997 – Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98

FAMOUS WEDDING

1985 – Action star actor Sylvester Stallone (39 ) weds ” Rocky IV” actress Brigitte Nielsen ( 22) in Beverly Hills, California