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This day in #History
October 20th





1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed

1634 - English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax

1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I

1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia

1751 - Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort

1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment

1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship , was approved in Habsburg Monarchy .

1786 - Harvard University organizes 1 st
astronomical expedition in US

1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase

1813 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished

1817 - 1 st Mississippi "Showboat, " leaves Nashville
on maiden voyage

1818 - 49 th parallel forms as border between US &
Canada

1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon
country

1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $ 5 million

1822 - 1 st edition of London Sunday Times

1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes
Thanksgiving as a national holiday

1880 - Amsterdam Free University opens

1883 - Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to
Chile


1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District
of Alaska & Canada

1905 - Great General Strike in Russia begins ; lasts
11 days

1905 - Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak
Polish

1906 - Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical
vacuum tube ( radio tube)

1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium

1935 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended
their "Long March" at Yan' an, in Shaanxi China

1936 - Spanish government moves to Barcelona

1952 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya

1963 -  South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8  others on conspiracy

1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize

1970 - Zond 8 Launch ( Moon Orbit & Return)

1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is
awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1979 - JohnF Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston

2011 - The former leader of Libya, Muammar
Gaddafi , and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed
shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011 ) while in the
custody of NTC fighters







FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist
(discovered neutron)

1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, Gatundu Kenya, Kenyan leader and 1st Premier (1963 -78)

1971 - Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], Long Beach , California, rapper

FAMOUS DEATHS

1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (calculator ) , dies at 78

1876 - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper , Dutch
sociologist/historian , dies at 68

1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer
(b . 1821 )

1964 - Herbert Hoover , 31st president of US
(1929 -33) , dies in NY at 90

1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian -born
biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b . 1896 )

1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate, dies at 82

1986 - Samora Machel , president of Mozambique,
dies in air crash at 53

2011 - Muammar Gaddafi , Ruler of Libya ( b. 1942 )

2011 - Moatassem Gaddafi , Son of Moammar
Gaddafi and National Security Adviser of Libya ( b.
1977)

This day in #History 191013

This day in #History
October 19th



202 BC - Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus.

439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

1453 - 2nd Battle at Castillon: French beats English, end of hundred year war

1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany

1492 - Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas)

1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).

1576 - Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence

1722 - Frenchman C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher

1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 pm; Revolutionary War ends

1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow

1822 - In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.

1853 - 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations

1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales

1879 - Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign

1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light

1901 - Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower

1912 - Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control

1915 - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria

1925 - Italian army takes Somalia
1926 - John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle

1926 - Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers

1960 - France grants Mauritania independence

1960 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in

1960 - US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba

1962 - Stalin monument removed in Prague

1974 - Niue becomes self - govering, in association
with New Zealand

1976 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon . The same day ,
the Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) is placed on the
List of Endangered Species .

1981 - Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win
Nobel for physics (laser)

1983 - Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr federal holiday

1988 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics ; 3 W
Germans win chemistry Nobel

2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for
crimes against humanity .







FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1868 - Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)

1899 - Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), (d. 1974)

1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)

1962 - Evander Holyfield, Atmore Ala , boxer (Oly - bronze-1988 )/ champ (1990 -92)

1967 - Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter/ peace
activist

FAMOUS DEATHS

1937 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel 1908), dies at 66

1993 - Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91

1994 - Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan, dies

1994 - Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72

2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)

This day in #History

This day in #History
October 16th








456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.

1311 - Council of Vienne ( 15th ecumenical council ) opens

1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland , although a woman.

1780 - Royalton , Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont
last major raid of the American Revolutionary War .
1781 - Washington takes Yorktown

1793 - Battle of Wattignies.

1813 - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia,
Austria & Russia )

1829 - Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens
(Boston )

1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster ( parliament) in London is burnt down.

1841 - Queens University in Kingston is chartered

1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with
the idea of quaternions , a non -commutative
extension of complex numbers .

1846 - Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether

1848 - 1 st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania

1849 - Avery College establishes in Allegheny,
Pennsylvania

1849 - British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras

1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in
Provo , Utah.

1876 - Race riot at Cainhoy SC ( 5 whites & 1 black killed)

1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business .


1905 - The Partition of Bengal ( India) occurred.

1915 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria

1916 - Margaret Sanger opens 1 st
birth control clinic ( 46 Amboy St, Bkln)

1916 - T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein

1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded

1923 - John Harwood patents self -winding watch
(Switzerland )

1925 - Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)

1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of
evolution

1926 - Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in
Afghanistan, 1200 killed

1934 - Mao Tse -tung & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March

1939 - Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands

1953 - FidelCastrosentenced to15 years (Havana )

1962 - Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba

1964 - China becomes world 's 5 th nuclear power

1973 - Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize

1973 - Maynard Jackson elected 1 st black mayor of Atlanta

1978 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon

1985 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle

1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweightboxing title

1989 - Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of
Tuvalu

1993 - GeneralOmar al -Bashirappointed Sudan president




FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS


1758 - Noah Webster , West
Hartford,Connecticut ,lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary) , ( d.1843)

1855 -Camille Looten,Belgianpriest/
literaturehistorian 1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general ( d . 1931 )

1861 - J . B. Bury, Irish historian (d . 1927)

1863 - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary
(Nobel 1925 )

1886 - David Ben - Gurion, Plonsk Poland , 1st Prime Minister of Israel ( 1948- 53, 55 )

1888 - Eugene O' Neill, NYC, dramatist
(Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)

1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza

FAMOUS DEATHS


775 - Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden , dies


1355 - Louis , King of Sicily , felled by the Black Death

1793 - Marie Antoinette,queen of France, beheaded at 37

1849 - George Washington Williams, 1 st major black historian, dies

1893 - Patrice MacMahon , duc de Magenta,
President of France (b . 1808

1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan , PM of Pakistan ( 1947- 51), assassinated by Said Akbar

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