Famous Historical Events:
1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury. It was the 1st human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. The Mercury-Atlas 6 flight on February 20, 1962, was the first American flight to achieve this goal.
1724 - 1st Easter [NS=April 16]. It is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. This resurrection was celebrated as the season for forty days.
1829 – The Polish city of Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1200, which located on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Motlawa River.
1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York.
1914 - "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London.
1918 - Latvia proclaims independence from Soviet Union. It was provided that a committee to elaborate a new edition of the Constitution of Latvia should be created. Social, economic, cultural and political rights were granted to citizens and residents of Latvia in accordance with international human rights. The declaration also stated that Latvia would form its relationship with the Soviet Union on the basis of the Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, in which the Soviet Union had recognized the independence of Latvia as inviolable "for all future time".
1947 - Tornadoes Higgins striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1300.
1952 - Bolivian Revolution, an anti-imperialist, ant feudal revolution in Bolivia, led by the national bourgeoisie. A popular uprising erupted in the country on Apr. 9, 1952, and after three days of fighting, the domination of the feudal oligarchy and the magnates of the mining industry, who were bound up with the imperialism of the USA, was thrown off. The Nationalist Revolutionary Movement party (MNR) came to power, which played a great role in the uprising. A unified trade union organization, the Bolivian Workers’ Central Union, was established. The old army was abolished and a workers’ and peasants’ militia created; universal suffrage was introduced; and a national program was adopted to eliminate illiteracy, providing for compulsory elementary education.
1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax. It is a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and was directed by André de Toth. The 1953 House of Wax was an early example of the 3-D film craze of the early 1950s.
1957 - Suez Canal cleared for all shipping. It is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt that connects Europe & Asia without navigation around Africa. It was also known as ‘The Highway to India’.
1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury. It was the 1st human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. The Mercury-Atlas 6 flight on February 20, 1962, was the first American flight to achieve this goal.
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously).
1965 - India & Pakistan engaged in border fight. This fight also known as Second Kashmir War, since they fought for disputed Kashmir region from 1947. It ended in a United Nations (UN) mandated ceasefire and the subsequent issuance of the Tashkent Declaration.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta. His death created a greatest civil war in history of United States. Then later, it leads to equal rights for black people.
1972 - USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty, which leads to co-opt in both Socio-economic issues between both countries.
1976 – United States & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use. Both countries signed Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE) Treaty, which helps to govern nuke reactors limit. It also agreed to make the avoidance of nuclear war and the non-use of nuclear.
1979 - Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins.
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated. This case remains mystery & been considered one of deadliest political crime ever in Africa.
2002 - The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
2003 - Baghdad falls to U.S. forces resulting in widespread looting and unrest in Iraq.
2005 - His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles.
