Historical Events
1848 - President Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming gold discovery in California
1906 - British government of Balfour resigns
1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
1983 - ICIMOD established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
1983 - 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
2008 - OJ Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery
Famous Birthdays
1697 - Giuseppe de Majo, composer
1872 - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player
1888 - Askell Snorrason, composer
1966 - Niege Dias, Brazil, tennis star
1970 - Kevin Haller, Trochu, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1982 - Trai Essex, American football player
Famous Deaths
1887 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
1891 - JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies
1925 - Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78
1983 - Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65
1995 - Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday
2013 - Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-1990) and South African President (1994-99) dies of a lung infection at 95
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