28 February - History and Importance of the Day

1844 - During a demonstration of naval fire power, one of the guns aboard the USS Princeton exploded. Several top U.S. government officials were killed. President John Tyler escaped narrowly.

1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (1927-1986) was assassinated in Stockholm while exiting a movie theater with his wife.

1994 - NATO conducted its first combat action in its 45 year history as four Bosnian Serb jets were shot down by American fighters in a no-fly zone.


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28 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

29 February - History and Importance of the Day

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29  February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

2 March - History and Importance of the Day

1943 - During World War II in the Pacific, a Japanese convoy was attacked by 137 American bombers as the Battle of Bismarck Sea began. The convoy included eight destroyers and eight transports carrying 7,000 Japanese soldiers heading toward New Guinea. Four destroyers and all eight transports were sunk in the battle.

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2 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

7 March History and Importance of the Day

2013 World Book Day - First Thursday in March

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7 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

5 March History and Importance of the Day

1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a four-day "Bank Holiday" to stop panic withdrawals by the public and the possible collapse of the American banking system.

March 5, 1946 - The "Iron Curtain" speech was delivered by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill used the term to describe the boundary in Europe between free countries of the West and nations of Eastern Europe under Soviet Russia's control.


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5 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

9 March History and Importance of the Day

Birthday
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968).  Russia. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human in space, orbiting in a capsule 187 miles above the Earth's surface in a flight lasting 108 minutes.


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Birthday
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968).  Russia. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human in space, orbiting in a capsule 187 miles above the Earth's surface in a flight lasting 108 minutes.

1943 - Bobby Fischer - Chess




9 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

10 March History and Importance of the Day

No Smoking Day in UK



1862 - The first issue of U.S. government paper money occurred as $5, $10 and $20 bills began circulation.

1880 - The Salvation Army was founded in the United States. The social service organization was first founded in England by William Booth and operates today in 90 countries.
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Birthdays

Sharon Stone
Prince Edward


10 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

27 May - History and Importance of The Day

History events video
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1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1927 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
1980 - South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1985 - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1997 - Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO



27 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

16 May - History and Importance of The Day

History Events Video
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16 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

30 May - History and Importance of The Day

History events video
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1498 - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1539 - Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1783 - The Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first daily newspaper published in America.
1848 - Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1889 - Brassier invented
1908 - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved in USA
1912 - US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated. The Memorial was designed by architect Henry Bacon and features a compelling statue of "Seated Lincoln" by sculptor Daniel Chester French.
1922 - Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1943 - During World War II in the Pacific, the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska were retaken by the U.S. 7th Infantry Division. The battle began on May 12 when an American force of 11,000 landed on Attu. In three weeks of fighting U.S. casualties numbered 552 killed and 1,140 wounded. Japanese killed numbered 2,352, with only 28 taken prisoner, as 500 chose suicide rather than be captured.
1966 - 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam

Birthday
Founder of the Russian empire Peter the Great (1672-1725)

30 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

22 October History and Importance of the Day

794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1879 - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1953 - Laos gains full independence from France
2008 - India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.


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October - Day in History of India
 October - Knowledge History

History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

8 October History and Importance of the Day

1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago erupted. According to legend, it started a cow kicked over a lantern in her barn on DeKoven Street. Over 300 persons were killed and 90,000 were left homeless as the fire leveled 3.5 square miles, destroying 17,450 buildings. Financial losses totaled over $200 million.



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History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

6 October History and Importance of the Day

 1927 - The first "talkie" opened in New York. The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson was the first full-length feature film using spoken dialogue.

1928 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek became president of the Republic of China.

1973 - The Yom Kippur War started as Egypt and Syria launched attacks on Israeli positions on the East Bank of the Suez and the Golan Heights.

1978 - Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini was granted asylum in France after being expelled from Iran for his opposition to the Shah.

1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (1918-1981) was assassinated in Cairo

Birthday - Engineer and inventor George Westinghouse (1846-1914).  He developed air brakes for trains and was later responsible for the adoption of alternating current (AC) systems for electric power transmission in the U.S.
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History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

20 February - History and Importance of the Day

World Day of Social Justice

1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
1811 - Austria declares bankruptcy
1865 - M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
1872 - Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 - Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags

1943 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel broke through American lines at Kasserine Pass in North Africa as inexperienced U.S. Troops lost their first major battle of World War II in Europe, with 1,000 Americans killed.

1962 - Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to complete a full orbit of the earth. Traveling aboard the "Friendship 7" spacecraft, Glenn reached an altitude of 162 miles (260 kilometers) and completed three orbits in a flight lasting just under five hours. Glenn was the third American in space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom completed short sub-orbital flights. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was the first human in space, completing one orbit on April 12, 1961





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20 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

26 May - History and Importance of The Day

Georgia National Day

Guyana National Day



1824 - Brazil is recognized by US
1869 - Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1918 - Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia (Georgia National Day)
1918 - Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky
1940 - The Dunkirk evacuation began in order to save the British Expeditionary Force trapped by advancing German armies on the northern coast of France. Boats and vessels of all shapes and sizes ferried 200,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian soldiers across the English Channel by June 2nd.
1946 - Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1972 - Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord

26 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

6 March History and Importance of the Day

Ghana National Day

2013  World Mathematics Day - First Wednesday of March



1836 - Fort Alamo fell to Mexican troops led by General Santa Anna. The Mexicans had begun the siege of the Texas fort on February 23rd, ending it with the killing of the last defender. "Remember the Alamo" became a rallying cry for Texans who went on to defeat Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto in April.

Birthday
Michelangelo (1475-1564) was born in Caprese, Italy. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, poet. He was best known for his fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel


6 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

27 February - History and Importance of the Day

Dominican Republic National day



1950 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting the president to two terms or a maximum of ten years in office.

1991 - In Desert Storm, the 100-hour ground war ended as Allied troops entered Kuwait just four days after launching their offensive against Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces.

Birthday - American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). His poems include Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and The Wreck of the Hesperus.




27 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

25 February - History and Importance of the Day

Kuwait National day

25 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

16 February - History and Importance of the Day

Lithuania National day

600 - Pope Gregory the Great decree saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1880 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was formed in (New York City
1948 - 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NB
Presley 1968 - Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe (WI) v NZ Kingston, 214 & 100








16 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

15 February - History and Importance of the Day

Serbia National day

399 - Philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth and of impiety

1898 - In Havana, the U.S. Battleship Maine was blown up while at anchor and quickly sank with 260 crew members lost. The incident resulted in a declaration of war against Spain on April 25, 1898, amid cries of "Remember the Maine!"

1902 - Underground railway (U-Bahn)
1906 - British Labour Party founded
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America founded
1922 - Marconi began regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
1933 - An assassination attempt on newly elected U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt occurred in Miami, Florida.
1989 - Soviet Russia completed its military withdrawal from Afghanistan after nine years of unsuccessful involvement in the civil war between Muslim rebel groups and the Russian-backed Afghan government.

Birthdays

Astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Italy. He was the first astronomer to use a telescope and advanced the theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system.

Inventor Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884).  He invented the horse-drawn mechanical reaper.

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), USA. She worked tirelessly for woman's suffrage (right to vote). She was commemorated in 1979 with the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, thus became the first American woman to have her image on a U.S. coin.

15 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

23 February - History and Importance of the Day

Natrional Days Brunei, Guyana



1942 - During World War II, the first attack on the U.S. mainland occurred as a Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing minor damage.

1991 - In Desert Storm, the Allied ground offensive began after a devastating month-long air campaign targeting Iraqi troops in both Iraq and Kuwait.



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23 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

12 February - History and Importance of the Day

Darwin Day


1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in the U.S. Senate ended.

Birthdays

1809 Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin

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12 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

7 July - History and Importance of the Day

International Day of Cooperatives


1898 - President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing Hawaii. In 1900, Congress made Hawaii an incorporated territory of the U.S., which it remained until becoming a state in 1959.
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7 July - Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

http://www.historyorb.com/day/july/7


1607 "God Save the King" was first sung

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God Save the Queen - British National Anthem
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1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg

Birthday

1656  Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism

10 October History and Importance of the Day

World Mental Health Day
http://www.wfmh.org/00WorldMentalHealthDay.htm



1954 - Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi, Vietnam, after the withdrawal of French troops, in accordance with armistice terms ending the seven-year struggle between Communist Vietnamese and the French.

October 10, 1973 - Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996) resigned the office of Vice President of the United States amid charges of income tax evasion on illegal payments allegedly received while he was governor of Maryland and after he became Vice President. He was later given a $10,000 fine and sentenced to serve three years probation.


2010 -  Sajid Khan, an antique dealer of New York threw a book onto the dais where President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were addressing a meeting.

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History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

9 October History and Importance of the Day

World Post day


1962 - Uganda achieved independence after nearly 70 years of British rule.

1970 - Cambodia declared itself the Khmer Republic following the abolishment of the monarchy by the legislature.

Birthday - John Lennon (1940-1980), England. He was a member of The Beatles,

History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

5 October History and Importance of the Day

World Teacher's Day


1908 - Bulgaria proclaimed its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

1910 - Portugal became a republic following a successful revolt against King Manuel II.

1938 - Czech President Dr. Eduard Benes resigned and fled abroad amid threats from Adolf Hitler.

Birthday - Chester A. Arthur (1830-1886) the 21st President of the U.S.

"Father of the Space Age" Robert Goddard (1882-1945) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1926, he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on a farm near Auburn, Mass. In 1935, his liquid-fueled rocket surpassed the speed of sound. Other developments included a steering apparatus for rocket machines, staged rockets to reach high altitudes, rocket fuel pumps, and a self-cooling rocket motor.


History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

4 October History and Importance of the Day

World Animals Day

1582 - The Gregorian Calendar took effect in Catholic countries as Pope Gregory XIII issued a decree stating the day following Thursday, October 4, 1582, would be Friday, October 15, 1582,

1830 - Belgium gained its independence, after having been a part of the Netherlands since 1815.

1957 - The Space Age began as the Russians launched the first satellite into orbit. Sputnik I weighed just 184 lbs. and transmitted a beeping radio signal for 21 days.

Birthday -

St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

 Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) the 19th U.S. President

History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

29 May - History and Importance of The Day

International Day of UN Peacekeepers



363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital.
757 - St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1453 - Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire. Start of Ottoman Empire.

1592 - At the Battle of Sacheon, the Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin, repels a Japanese army that outnumbers it nearly 3 to 1.
1660 - The English monarchy was restored with Charles II on the throne after several years of a Commonwealth under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
1727 - Peter II (11) becomes Tsar of Russia

1916 - Official flag of president of US adopted
1916 - US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje founded
1922 - Ecuador becomes independent
1954 - Pope Pius X issues holy declaration

2001 - International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.


Birthday

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) the 35th U.S. President.  He was the youngest man ever elected to the presidency and the first Roman Catholic. He was assassinated in Dallas, November 22, 1963.


29 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

25 May - History and Importance of The Day

Towel Day

Argentina National Day

Jordan National Day


1787 - The Constitutional Convention (USA) began in Philadelphia with delegates from seven states forming a quorum.

1946 - Jordan gained independence from Britain (Jordan National Day)
1949 - Chinese Red army entered Shanghai
1965 - India & Pakistan War
1994 - After 20 years in exile, Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to his homeland. He had been expelled from Soviet Russia in 1974 after his three-volume work exposing the Soviet prison camp system, The Gulag Archipelago, was published in the West.
2000 - Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2012 - A SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station

Birthday

American author and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).  His works include: Nature (1836), Essays, First Series (1841), Essays, Second Series (1844), Poems (1847, 1865), Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).

25 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

21 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Day of Cultural Diversity







878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor


1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1861 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1991 - Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in the midst of a re-election campaign, killed by a bomb hidden in a bouquet of flowers.
1994 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe

Birthday
Russian physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989).  He was instrumental in formulating the political reform concept called perestroika and in encouraging glasnost (openness) in restrictive communist countries.


21 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

9 May - History and Importance of The Day

Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation - II World War

Victory Day in Russia, a national holiday commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany during the "Great Patriotic War" (World War II) honoring the 20 million Russians who died in the war.



9 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

21 January - History, Knowledge, News, Videos of the Day

Obama Took Oath as President of the USA for the Second Term
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News Bulletins
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History and Importance of the Day

History of the day Asia - India - Newzealand

Knowledge History of the Day

English Films History of the Day

Hindi Films History of the Day

Telugu Films History of the Day