January 20: Martyrs' Day in Azerbaijan (1990)
Simon de Montfort
- 1265 – Summoned by Simon de Montfort (pictured), the first English parliament held its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster.
- 1843 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, became the de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
- 1945 – World War II: Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8 million people from East Prussia, an operation which took nearly two months to complete.
- 1969 – Bengali student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman was shot and killed by East Pakistani police, one of the events that led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 2009 – During the Icelandic financial crisis, thousands of people gathered to protest at the parliament in Reykjavík.
Sebastian de Aparicio (b. 1502) · John Soane (d. 1837) · Agnes Mary Clerke (d. 1907)
More anniversaries:
from Wikipedia "On this day..." feed http://ift.tt/2DRr9yO
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire