THIS DAY IN HISTORY 18/05

This Day in History 18/05

MAY 18TH

1642 – Montreal, Canada, founded

1652 – Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal

1803 – Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland

1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France

1960 – Real Madrid won its 5th European Cup

1974 – India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb

1997 – Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic

2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1868 – Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)

1920 – John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], Wadowice Poland, 264th Roman Catholic Pope (1978-2005)

1955 – Yun Fat Chow, Nam Nga Island Hong Kong, actor (Better Tomorrow)

1970 – Tina Fey, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, American writer/actress (Saturday Night Live)

1981 – Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer

FAMOUS DEATHS

1973 – Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43) and pacifist, dies at 92

1980 – Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952)

1980 – Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)

1980 – David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1949)

1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched), dies of cancer at 62

2000 – Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar

2013 – Steve Forrest, American actor (SWAT)

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 14/04

This Day in History 14/04

APRIL 14TH

1611 – Word “telescope” is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi

1828 – First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication

1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.

1962 – Georges Pompidou becomes president of France

1971 – Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site

1971 – President Nixon ends blockade against People’s Republic of China

1986 – Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown

1992 – UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect

2002 – 66th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win in two consecutive years

2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1886 – Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian

1889 – Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)

1892 – Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian

1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy

FAMOUS DEATHS

1915 – James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies

1993 – Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death

1994 – Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered

2006 – Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)

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