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●.This is St David’s Day. St David is the saint patron of Wales, who died on this day in 589. People
usually wear one of the symbols of Wales, a leek in the hatband, or a daffodil in the buttonhole. This
flower traditionally blooms in March.The day was declared a national day of celebration within Wales
in the 18th century.
●.Europeans first heard news of the New World when Martin Alonso Pinzón, member of Christopher Columbus’s expedition, returned to Spain in the Pinta, in 1493.Columbus arrived back two weeks later.
●.Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia, in 1992.
●.The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro, in 2002.
●.Russian statesman and Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931.
●. A US Air Force50 aeroplane, Lucky Lady II, landed in Texas on this day of 1949, having completed the first non-stop round-the-world flight; it had taken off from the same air force four days earlier, and refuelled four times in mid-air.
●. Beethoven’s sonata no 14, Moonlight, was published in 1802.
●.Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish scientist and inventor, was born in 1847. He was one of the leading
developers of the telephone.
●.Italian Baroque violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi was born in 1678.His best known work is
“The Four Seasons”
●.French Egyptologist Jean F.Champollion died in 1832. He translated the Rosetta Stone, which helped to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
●.The première of the ballet Swan Lake, by P.I. Tchaikosky, was held at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, in 1877.
●. Don Vicente Sos Baynat (1895-1992),Spanish geologist who was born in Castellon, could vote in 1979 in the first democratic elections after the Spanish Civil War.
●Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator was born in 1512.He is remembered for Mercator’s projection, a method of map-drawing using in nautical charts.
●.Water, in the form of ice, was discovered in 1998, at the north and south poles of the Moon by NASA
Luna Prospector spacecraft.
●.Italian sculptor,painter and poet Michelangelo was born in 1475. He is considered the archetypal
Renaissance man. Best-known for his scultures-the Pietà and the David, and the paintings in fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
●.Commercial Aspirin was patented in Berlin by German chemist Felix Hoffman, in 1899.
●. German engineer and inventor of the motorcycle Gottlieb Daimler died in 1900.
●.Italian scholastic philosopher and theologian St. Thomas Aquinas died in 1274. Best-known for his
“Summma Theologica”.
●. Scottish scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who was one of the leading developers of the telephone, was given the US patent number 174,465 for the first telephone, in 1876.
●.US screenwriter, film producer and director Stanley Kubrick died in 1999. He is well-known by the film “Clockwork Orange”.
●.Apple Inc. is given the patent to the iPod, in 2006.
●.International Women’s Day is celebrated on this day every year since1975. It is a day of global
celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
●.Italian-born Spanish explorer Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1451. The continent of America was named after him.
●.The Barbie doll went on sale for the first time in 1959, at the American Toy Fair in New York. Produced by Mattel, Inc., and created by the American businesswoman Ruth Handled. This day is considered Barbie’s official birthday.
●.The first US banknotes were issued in 1862.
●.On this day in 1876, a complete sentence of intelligible speech was transmitted by telephone for the first time, when Alexander Graham Bell rang his assistant, Thomas Watson with the words:” Mr. Watson,come here, I want you”.
●.The first English daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published in 1702.
●.Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming died in 1955.
●.On this day in 2004, in Madrid, Spain, a series of bomb explosions on commuter trains killed at least 200 people and injured 1,000 in one of Europe’s worst ever terrorist attacks.
●.Cambridge University challenged Oxford University to a rowing race; the resulting Boat Race was
held on 10 June 1829.
●. Australia ‘s new federal capital was formally named Canberra, in 1913.
●. US singer and actress Liza Minelly was born in 1946. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in the film Cabaret.
●.The planet Uranus was discovered by the German-born British astronomer Sir William Herschel, in
1781. It was given the name of a Greek mithological figure, in accordance with the other planets.
●.The discovery of the planet Pluto was confirmed by US astronomer ClydeTombaugh, in 1930.
●.German–Swisss US mathematical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein was born in 1879.
He was the formulator of the Theory of Relativity. He is considered one of the greatest physicists whon ever lived. In popular culture, the name “Einstein” symbolises genius.
●. German social, political and economic theorist Karl Marx died in London in 1883. Co-founder (with Engels) of marxism, he is considered the father of comunism. He wrote Das Kapital.
●.George Eastman, US inventor of the roll film and the Kodak camera, died in 1932.
●.Having reached the New World, the explorer Christopher Columbus arrived back in Spain, where he
was received with the highest honours, in 1493.
●. US-born British merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge, opened his department store, Selfridges, in Oxford Street, London, in 1909.
●.Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was born in 1941. His film “The Last Emperor” was awarded
nine Oscars.
●.Queen Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge in 1973; the old bridge had been sold and rebuilt in Arizona, USA.
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