60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta 1720 Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain 1824 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru 1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo 1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design 1952 India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehruremains in power | 
No comments:
Post a Comment