This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

February 1

1790
The Supreme Court of the United States
convened for the first time, in New York City.

1862
Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the
Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly
.
1884
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary
A–Ant, was published.

1946
A press conference announced the first
electronic digital computer , ENIAC, was held at
the University of Pennsylvania.

1960
Four black college students began a series of sit-
ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s,
Greensboro, N.C.

1968
During the Vietnam War , a Viet Cong officer was
executed with a pistol shot to the head by
Saigon's police chief and the image captured in
a famous news photograph.

1979
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran
after 15 years of exile.

2003
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it
tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a
sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members
of the crew were lost.
2004
Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction"
occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
2009
Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland 's
first female prime minister.

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 2

1536
The city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, was founded
by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza .

1709
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration
for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, was rescued
after four years alone on an island off the coast
of Chile .

1848
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the
Mexican War, was signed. In the treaty, Mexico
ceded to the United States a huge portion of
what is today the American West and Southwest ,
including California and New Mexico.

1870
The Cardiff Giant was revealed to be a hoax.

1876
The National League of Professional Baseball
Clubs was formed.

1887
The first gathering at Gobbler's Knob in
Punxsatawney, Pa. to wait for the groundhog's
shadow occurred.

1922
James Joyce's Ulysses was published.

1943
Nazi troops surrendered in the World War II
Battle of Stalingrad.

1971
Idi Amin became dictator of Uganda .

1980
The Abscam scandal was revealed.

1990
South African President F. W. de Klerk lifted a
ban on the African National Congress and
promised to free Nelson Mandela .

2003
Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel stepped
down after 13 years.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 30

Barbara Tuchman
historian (1912)

Douglas Engelbart
inventor (1925)

Gene Hackman
actor (1930)

Richard Brautigan
writer (1935)

Vanessa Redgrave
actress (1937)

Richard Cheney
vice president of the United States (1941)

Michael Dorris
American Writer (1945)

Christian Bale
actor (1974)

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 31

Zane Grey
author (1872)

Tallulah Bankhead
actress (1902)

John O'Hara
novelist and short-story writer, (1905)

Thomas Merton
religious writer and poet (1915)

Jackie Robinson
baseball player (1919)

Carol Channing
comedienne, singer (1921)

Norman Mailer
writer (1923)

Minnie Driver
actress (1970)

Justin Timberlake
pop musician (1981)

 

[Dinesh jain]

o Born on February 1

Edward Coke
jurist (1552)

Hattie Wyatt Caraway
U.S. senator (1878)

John Ford
film director (1894)

Clark Gable
actor (1901)

S.J. Perelman
comic writer (1904)

Dame Muriel Spark
novelist (1918)

Boris Yeltsin
Russian president (1931)

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 2

Talleyrand
statesman and diplomat (1754)

Albert Sidney Johnston
general (1803)

George Halas
football pioneer (1895)

Jascha Heifetz
violinist (1901)

Ayn Rand
writer (1905)

Abba Eban
statesman (1915)

James Dickey
poet and novelist (1923)

Stan Getz
saxophonist (1927)

Farrah Fawcett
actor (1947)

Christie Brinkley
model (1954)

Shakira
singer, songwriter (1977)

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 3

1468
Johann Gutenberg, German printer and inventor,
died.

1870
The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) passed.

1913
The 16th Amendment , establishing federal
income tax, was ratified.

1917
The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with
Germany .

1959
Rock singers, Buddy Holly , Richie Valens, and Big
Bopper died in a plane crash.

1995
Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to
pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery
blasted off.

1998
Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker , the first
woman to be executed in the United States since
1984.

This Day in History: February 3

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 3

Felix Mendelssohn
composer (1809)

Horace Greeley
newspaper editor and founder (1811)

Gertrude Stein
author (1874)

Norman Rockwell
illustrator (1894)

Alvar Aalto
architect and furniture designer (1898)

James Michener
author (1907)

Joey Bishop
comedian, ator (1918)

Linda Wachner
industry executive (1946)

J. Catherine Roberts
science teacher (1953)

Isla Fisher
comedian, ator (1976)b

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 4

1783
England proclaimed the formal end to the
hostilities with the United States.

1787
Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts
farmers, was defeated.

1789
George Washington and John Adams are elected
the president and vice president of the United
States.

1861
Delegates from six southern states met at
Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate
States of America.

1945
Roosevelt , Churchill , and Stalin met at the Yalta
Conference.

1948
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence
from the United Kingdom .

1969
The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir
Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation
Organization .

1974
Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper
mogul William Randolph Hearst , was kidnapped
by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1976
Benjamin Britten , British composer, died.
2003
The country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be
replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and
Montenegro .

2004
The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that
gays had the right to marry.

This Day in History: February 4

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 4

Tadeusz Kosciusko
general (1746)

Fernand Léger
painter (1881)

Clyde William Tombaugh
astronomer (1906)

Rosa Parks
civil rights activist (1913)

Betty Friedan
feminist (1921)

George Romero
filmmaker (1939)

Dan Quayle
vice president (1947)

Oscar De La Hoya
boxer (1973)

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