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1325 |
Tenochtitlan,
the capital of the Aztec Empire, is founded. |
|
1567 |
Margaret
of Parma, Regent of the Netherlands, uses German mercenaries to
annihilate 2,000 Calvinists. |
|
1733 |
Birth of
Joseph Priestley, English scientist (died 1804). He is best
known for his work on the isolation of gases and for the
discovery of oxygen. |
|
1741 |
Birth of
Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II (died 1790). |
|
1781 |
The
German-born English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovers
the planet Georgium Sidus, later known as Uranus. |
|
1860 |
Birth of
Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (died 1903). Chiefly a composer of
songs, he set the poetry of Goethe and Italian and Spanish
writers to music and wrote the opera Der Corregidor. |
|
1894 |
The world’s
first theatrical strip-tease act takes place in the Divan
Fayouau Music Hall in Paris, featuring a girl stripping to go to
bed. |
|
1906 |
Death of
Susan B Anthony, pioneer and leader of the women’s suffrage
movement in the United States. In 1888, she organised the
International Council of Women. |
|
1922 |
Establishment
of the Societe des Graphites de l’Indochine in French-ruled
Viet Nam. |
|
1930 |
A strike
at the Thai Hop saw-mill, led by the local communist cell,
sparks a series of other strikes by workers in Viet Nam’s Nghe
An and Ha Tinh central provinces. |
|
1938 |
Austria is
declared part of the German Reich. |
|
1942 |
British
bombers stage a saturation raid on the German city of Cologne
during World War II. |
|
1954 |
The
Vietnamese resistance army begins a strategic campaign against
the French’s most fortified entrenched camp in Indochina at
Dien Bien Phu, north-western Viet Nam. |
|
1967 |
Death of
Frank Worrel, West Indian cricket captain. He was knighted in
1964 for his contribution to cricket. |
|
1971 |
The
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South
Viet Nam denounces the US and Sai Gon for continuing the
massacre of civilians in South Viet Nam following the slaughter
in 1968 of over 500 villagers at My Lai, Quang Ngai Province. |
|
1992 |
An
earthquake rocks Turkey, claiming at least 570 lives. |
|
1996 |
A gunman
in Dunblane, Scotland, shoots to death 16 young pupils and a
teacher. |
|
1996 |
Death of
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director. He was best known
for his Decalogue – ten films on the Ten Commandments – and
his Three Colours series of films. |
|
1999 |
Death of
Garson, US writer and director, who co-wrote with his wife the
tart-tongued comedies Adam’s Rib and Pat and Mike for Spencer
Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. — AP/REUTERS/VNS |
