On This Day in History |
|
|
|
 | Pope Gregory XIII with the calendar that was to make his name |
|
1752 Britain and the British Empire, including the American colonies, adopt the Gregorian calendar after skipping 11 days between September 3 and September 13 |
1922 Burning of Smyrna, the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks: Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor, destroying much of the port city of Smyrna (August 13 OS) |
1939 World's first practical helicopter, the VS-300, designed by Igor Sikorsky, takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut |
1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language, celebrated today as Hindi Day |
 | IBM 305 RAMAC at the U.S. Army Red River Arsenal; foreground: two 350 disk drives; background: 380 console and 305 processing unit |
|
1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive with magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton |
1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
|
|
|
|
|
Also Jacobo Árbenz and Amy Winehouse. |
|
|
|
|
Also Aaron Burr and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. |
|
|
|
|
Two famous American women – Grace Kelly and Isadora Duncan, both died after tragic motoring accidents in the same area on this day, though half a century apart. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment