INTRODUCING HISTORY TO STEEMIT : ON THIS DAY!
Hello Steemians,
This post is dedicated to every lover of history, and promises to be educating and fully loaded with information.
Why do we need history told?
History helps us understand Change, and how the society we live in came to existence. It simply follows closely on the first. The past causes the present, and so the future (AHA, 1998).
As a lover of history, I will be sharing daily history facts.
ON THIS DAY; FEBRUARY 1ST
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1327 - Edward III is coronated King of England
1587 - Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the Warrant of Execution for Mary Queen of Scots
1633 - The tobacco laws of Virginia are codified, limiting tobacco production to reduce dependence on a single-crop economy
1793 - France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
1861 - A furious Governor Sam Houston storms out of a legislative session upon learning that Texas has voted 167-7 to secede from the Union
1902 - U.S. Secretary of State John Hay protests Russian privileges in China as a violation of the "open door policy"
1905 - Germany contests French rule in Morocco
1909 - U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president
1930 - A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California
1942 - Planes of the U.S. Pacific fleet attack Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands
1943 - American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions at Faid Pass in North Africa
1944 - U.S. Army troops invade two Kwajalein Islands in the Pacific
1945 - U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March
1951 - Three A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada
1960 - Four black students stage a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson rejects Charles de Gaulle's plan for a neutral Vietnam
1965 - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama
1968 - U.S. troops drive the North Vietnamese out of Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon
1968 - South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law
1986 - Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead
BIRTHDAYS
1552 - Sir Edward Coke, English jurist who helped the development of English law with his arguments for the supremacy of common law over royal prerogative
1878 - Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
1901 - Clark Gable, American film actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone With the Wind)
1902 - Langston Hughes, African-American poet
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, The first president of the Republic of Russia and prime minister of the Russian Federation.
Source : The Steel Reporter
This article was culled from www.historynet.com
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