WebFebruary 2 – Abscam: FBI personnel target members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.; February 2 – 3 – The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot takes place; 33 inmates are killed and more than 100 inmates injured.; February 4 – Abolhassan Banisadr is sworn in as the first President of Iran after winning the January 25 …

WebIn 1889 Congress divided the remaining area of Great Sioux Reservation into five separate reservations, defining the boundaries of each in its Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888. Pine Ridge was established at that time. ... On June 29, 2006, the tribal council voted to impeach Fire Thunder: it said that founding the clinic was outside her authority and she had failed …

WebThe wedding of the Prince of Wales (future King Charles III) and Lady Diana Spencer took place on Wednesday, 29 July 1981, at St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom.The groom was the heir apparent to the British throne, and the bride was a member of the Spencer family.. The ceremony was a traditional Church of England wedding service. …

WebThe Walcheren Campaign ([ˈʋɑlxərə(n)] WAHL-khə-rən) was an unsuccessful British expedition to the Netherlands in 1809 intended to open another front in the Austrian Empire's struggle with France during the War of the Fifth Coalition. Sir John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, was the commander of the expedition, with the missions of capturing Flushing …

WebThe Sydney tramway network served the inner suburbs of Sydney, Australia from 1879 until 1961.In its heyday, it was the largest in Australia, the second largest in the Commonwealth of Nations (after London), and one of the largest in the world.The network was heavily worked, with about 1,600 cars in service at any one time at its peak during the 1930s (cf. …

WebThe Shanghai International Settlement (Chinese: 上海公共租界) originated from the merger in the year 1863 of the British and American enclaves in Shanghai, in which British subjects and American citizens would enjoy extraterritoriality and consular jurisdiction under the terms of treaties agreed by both parties. These treaties were abrogated in 1943. The …

WebJudit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer.She …

Web1889 – Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938) 1889 – Robert William Wood, English-American painter (d. 1979) 1890 – Norman Bethune, Canadian soldier and physician (d. 1939) ... American general and politician, 28th United States Secretary of War (b. 1831) 1915 – William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856) 1916 – …

WebThe Hall of Fame for Great Americans is an outdoor sculpture gallery located on the grounds of Bronx Community College (BCC) in the Bronx, New York City.It is the first such hall of fame in the United States. Built in 1901 as part of the University Heights campus of New York University (NYU), the structure was designed by architect Stanford White to …

WebOperation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.It was and still is the largest land offensive in human history, with …