History and Importance of The Day

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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