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On This Day: June 17, 2015
Birthdays:
1882 Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer & conductor
1917 Dean Martin, American film actor & singer
1920 Beryl Reid, Actress
1928 James Brown, American singer
1934 Donald Sutherland, Canadian born film actor
1936 Ken Loach, Film director
1945 Ken Livingstone, Labour MP
1946 Barry Manilow, American singer/songwriter
Events:
1823 The waterproof material for raincoats was
patented by Charles Macintosh
1911 There was a massive Suffraget march through
London
1944 Iceland became an independent republic
1946 A war crime trial, for Emperor Hirohito of Japan,
began
1953 Soviet tanks were deployed against rioting East
Germans
1967 China exploded its first H-bomb
1970 The Polaroid camera was patented
1982 General Galtieri was deposed as the leader of
Argentina after the Falklands conflict
1983 The Pope asked the Polish authorities to lift
Martial Law
1996 NECON releases guidelines for registration of
political parties under the Abacha
administration's transition to civil rule
programme.
1996 Alhaji Muhammed Maccido is installed as the
19th Sultan of Sokoto.
US HISTory :
1837 - Union Colonel Strong Vincent was
born in Waterford, Pennsylvania. He was
mortally wounded at Little Round Top on
July 2, 1863. He died from his wounds
on July 7.
1861 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe
demonstrate the use of a gas balloon.
1994
O. J. Simpson's slow-speed chase by the police,
watched by millions on TV, ended in his arrest.
2002
Australian scientists announced that they had
"teleported" a laser beam—breaking it up and
reconstructing it in another location.
Compiled by... #Chinny
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