On October 19, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested along with 35 other people at an Atlanta, Georgia sit-in. The minister was sentenced to four months labor on a road gang. Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy risked angering Southern white supporters by pressing for Kings release. African Americans turned out to vote for Kennedy several weeks later, when he was elected president by a slim margin. ...via American Experience.... Now....... Events[edit] January–June[edit] January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark. February 12 Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean. The Virginia Assembly amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of gouging.[1] February 17 – The first partition of Poland is agreed to by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria. May – The Watauga Association is formed in East Tennessee. June 9 – The British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island. June 22 – Somersetts Case: Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, delivers the decision that leads to the end of slavery in England.[2] July–December[edit] August 5 – The First Partition of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth begins. August 12 – The volcano Mount Papandayan in West Java erupts and partially collapses, the debris avalanche killing several thousands.[3] August 21 – The coup détat by King Gustav III is completed by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and making him an enlightened despot. September 1 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California. October 28 – Basque-Spanish explorer Domingo de Bonechea in the Aguila sights Tauere atoll which he names San Simon y Judas. November 2 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence. Births[edit] March 10 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1829) March 15 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (d. 1843) April 7 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837) April 18 – David Ricardo, British economist (d. 1823) May 2 – Novalis, German poet (d. 1801) May 20 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer (d. 1828) May 22 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer (d. 1833) July 11 – John Rodgers, American naval officer (d. 1838) August 2 – Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé (d. 1804) August 15 – Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, German inventor (d. 1838) August 24 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843) October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher, (d. 1834) October 25 – Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813) November 18 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806) date unknown – Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader (d. 1864) Deaths[edit] February 8 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719) February 18 – Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712) March 21 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703) March 22 – John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718) March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704) March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688) May 1 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719) May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687) June 15 – Louis Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694) June 18 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706) June 18 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700) August 31 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695) September 30 – James Brindley, British canal builder (b. 1716) October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720) October 8 – Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (b. 1711) November 10 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724) November 19 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711) December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (b. 1695) date unknown – Madhavrao Peshwa, ruler of India (b. 1745) References[edit] Jump up ^ William Walter Hening. Henings Statutes at Large. Retrieved 9 April 2011. Jump up ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassells Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 327. ISBN 0-304-35730-8. Jump up ^ Papandayan. Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2010-09-09. Categories:
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