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2009 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government. [37] 2012 – Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city ...
Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
1814 – More than 1,200 people died in the most destructive recorded eruption of Mayon in the Philippines. 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty. 2009 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Iceland.
James P. Johnson (February 1, 1894 –November 17, 1955), American composer, would have turned 131 this year. Victor Herbert (February 1, 1859 –May 26, 1924), American composer, would have turned 166 this year. Francesco Maria Veracini (February 1, 1690 –October 31, 1768), Italian composer, would have turned 335 this year.
1990 – NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth (cropped version pictured) from a record distance of 40.5 au (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi). 2005 - YouTube is founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. 2007 – The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, killed 18 members of the Revolutionary ...
Famous people born on Leap Day. Leap Day babies make up a small percentage of the population, but several notable people have been born on Feb. 29 in even-numbered years. Here are a few notable names:
Inspire others with these powerful Black History Month quotes. Revisit famous words by Black leaders and icons such as MLK, James Baldwin, and Michelle Obama.
A crowd of at least 150,000 people, and perhaps as many as 500,000 marched in Paris in the first massive protest against the continuing Algerian War, which had gone into its eighth year. The occasion was the funeral ceremony for five of the nine people who had been killed by police in the Charonne metro station the previous Thursday.