You may wish to write about the following historical events.
Dates are given 3 months in advance to allow you time for research
and writing.
Dates and facts are taken from a reliable source, but we cannot
guarantee their accuracy. Please cross-check all information as
part of your research and let us know of any errors.
| In 3 months (February 2009): |
300 years ago
(2 Feb 1709)
Or 12th? |
Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk was rescued from Isla
Más a Tierra, Juan Fernandez Islands, South Pacific
after being marooned there for four years. Daniel Defoe’s
novel 'Robinson Crusoe' is based on his adventures
|
200 years ago
(3 Feb 1809) |
Birth of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer
and conductor |
200 years ago
(11 Feb 1809) |
American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton
patented the steamboat |
200 years ago
(12 Feb 1809) |
Birth of Charles Darwin, British naturalist
who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection |
200 years ago
(12 Feb 1809) |
Birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President
of the United States |
150 years ago
(3 Feb 1859) |
Birth of Hugo Junkers, German engineer and
aircraft designer |
150 years ago
(15 Feb 1859) |
Oregon became the 33rd state of the USA |
150 years ago
(15 Feb 1859) |
Birth of George Ferris, American engineer
who invented the Ferris wheel |
100 years ago
(9 Feb 1909) |
Birth of Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian
samba singer and actress |
100 years ago
(11 Feb 1909) |
Birth of Joseph Mankiewicz, American film
director, producer and writer |
100 years ago
(12 Feb 1909) |
The National Association for the Advancement
of Coloured People (NAACP) was founded in the USA |
100 years ago
(17 Feb 1909) |
Death of Geronimo, Native American Apache
leader |
100 years ago
(20 Feb 1909) |
'The Futurist Manifesto' by
Italian ideologist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was published
in the French newspaper 'Le Figaro' |
100 years ago
(23 Feb 1909) |
The 'Silver Dart', an early
experimental aircraft, was flown in Nova Scotia, Canada,
making the first powered flight in Canada and the British
Empire |
100 years ago
(24 Feb 1909) |
The Hudson Motor Car Company was founded
in Detroit, Michigan |
100 years ago
(26 Feb 1909) |
Birth of King Talal of Jordan |
100 years ago
(28 Feb 1909) |
Birth of Stephen Spender, British poet,
novelist, essayist and critic |
80 years ago
(11 Feb 1929) |
Italy and the Vatican signed the Lateran
Treaty, which recognised the Vatican City’s independence
and sovereignty |
80 years ago
(14 Feb 1929) |
The St Valentine's Day Massacre took
place in Chicago |
75 years ago
(23 Feb 1934) |
Léopold III became King of Belgium |
75 years ago
(23 Feb 1934) |
Death of Edward Elgar, British composer |
60 years ago
(14 Feb 1949) |
Israel's Knesset (the legislative
branch of government) met for the first time in Jerusalem |
50 years ago
(3 Feb 1959) |
The day the music died: American rock-and-roll
performers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper
died in a plane crash in Iowa |
50 years ago
(6 Feb 1959) |
American electrical engineer Jack Kilby
of Texas Instruments filed the first ever patent for an integrated
circuit |
50 years ago
(7 Feb 1959) |
Death of Daniel Malan, South African Prime
Minister who formed the first exclusively Afrikaner government |
50 years ago
(16 Feb 1959) |
Fidel Castro was sworn in as President of Cuba |
50 years ago
(20 Feb 1959) |
America's Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) ruled that rival political candidates must
be given
equal time on TV news programmes |
50 years ago
(22 Feb 1959) |
The first 'Daytona 500' NASCAR race
took place at Daytona Beach, Florida |
40 years ago
(3 Feb 1969) |
Yasser Arafat was appointed leader of the
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) at the Palestinian
National Congress in Cairo |
40 years ago
(9 Feb 1969) |
The Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' made its first flight, near Seattle,
Washington |
40 years ago
(15 Feb 1969) |
The first successful in vitro fertilisation
of human egg cells was announced by British physiologist
Robert G. Edwards of Cambridge University |
30 years ago
(1 Feb 1979) |
Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran after
16 years in exile |
30 years ago
(2 Feb 1979) |
Death of Sid Vicious, British punk rock
star ('Sex Pistols'), drug overdose |
30 years ago
(7 Feb 1979) |
Death of Josef Mengele, German physician
at Auschwitz, Nazi war criminal |
30 years ago
(12 Feb 1979) |
Death of Jean Renoir, French film director |
25 years ago
(4 Feb 1984) |
Death of Anna Anderson, claimed to be Anastasia,
daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II whose family were killed
by the Bolsheviks in July 1918 |
25 years ago
(7 Feb 1984) |
American space shuttle astronauts Bruce
McCandless and Robert L. Stewart carried out the first untethered
spacewalk |
25 years ago
(9 Feb 1984) |
Death of Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader |
25 years ago
(12 Feb 1984) |
British figure skaters Jayne Torvill and
Christopher Dean won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics
in Sarajevo, scoring the first perfect 6.0 in Olympic ice
dancing history |
25 years ago
(15 Feb 1984) |
Death of Ethel Merman, American singer and
actress |
25 years ago
(26 Feb 1984) |
The last remaining US troops occupying Beirut,
Lebanon were withdrawn |
25 years ago
(29 Feb 1984) |
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced
his resignation |
20 years ago
(5 Feb 1989) |
Sky TV was launched in Britain |
20 years ago
(14 Feb 1989) |
Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million
to the Indian Government for causing the 1984 Bhopal Disaster |
20 years ago
(14 Feb 1989) |
The first of 24 satellites that make up
the Global Positioning System (GPS) was launched by the US
Department of Defence |
20 years ago
(14 Feb 1989) |
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 'fatwa'
calling for the death of British author Salman Rushdie, whose
novel 'The
Satanic Verses' was condemned as blasphemous against
Muslims |
10 years ago
(7 Feb 1999) |
Death of King Hussein of Jordan |
10 years ago
(8 Feb 1999) |
Death of Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British
writer and philosopher |
10 years ago
(9 Feb 1999) |
Death of Bryan Mosley, British actor (Alf
Roberts in 'Coronation Street') |
10 years ago
(12 Feb 1999) |
After a five-week impeachment trial, US
President Bill Clinton was acquitted of perjury and obstruction
of justice |
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