Today is World Diabetes Day (International) On this date in: 1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Empire; 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days; 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher; 1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day; 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces; 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis; 1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs; and 2010 – Germanys Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula Ones Drivers Championship to become the sports youngest champion. Born on this date: 1765 – Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor, invented the steamboat (d. 1815); 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926); 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964); 1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990); 1904 – Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963); 1919 – Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973); 1933 – Fred Haise, American astronaut; 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales; 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, American diplomat, 66th United States Secretary of State; and 1961 – Laura San Giacomo, American actress. Died on this date: 1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220); 1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770); 1995 – Jack Finney, American author best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again(b. 1911); and 1997 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916).
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:19:54 +0000
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