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Muammar al-Qaddafi, the young Libyan army captain who deposed King Idris in September 1969, is proclaimed premier of Libya by the so-called General People?s Congress.
Born in a tent in the Libyan desert, Qaddafi was the son of a Bedouin farmer. He attended university and the Libyan military academy and steadily rose in the ranks of the Libyan army. An ardent Arab nationalist, he plotted with a group of fellow officers to overthrow the Libyan monarchy, which they accomplished on September 1, 1969. Blending Islamic orthodoxy, revolutionary socialism, and Arab nationalism, Qaddafi established a fervently anti-Western dictatorship. In 1970, he removed U.S. and British military bases and expelled Italian and Jewish Libyans. In 1973, he nationalized foreign-owned oil fields. He reinstated traditional Islamic laws, such as prohibition of alcoholic beverages and gambling, but liberated women and launched social programs that improved the standard of living in Libya. More...
2001 - Wikipedia goes online
The online encyclopedia has since become the largest reference work on the internet.
1992 - Croatia and Slovenia are internationally recognized as independent nations
The Yugoslav federation effectively collapsed as a result.
1973 - Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam
The fighting continued anyway until the capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army on April 30, 1975.
1892 - The rules of Basketball are published
Canadian James Naismith invented the sport for his gym class at YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1759 - The British Museum opens
Its collection comprises 8 million items and it is one of the most comprehensive collections in the world.
Historic Trivia pick
In February of 1948, dozens of ships near Indonesia started receiving distress calls from the Dutch ship SS Ourang Medan. The messages read ?All officers including captain are dead lying in the chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.? This was followed by a series of indecipherable Morse Code messages, and then one final one, ?I die?. When the ship was later discovered however, the messages paled in comparison to the bodies of the crew. Everyone on the ship was dead, and every body was frozen in place looking up at the sun, with arms outstretched and a contorted, almost anguished look on their faces. And maybe the most strange of all, there were no signs of injuries on any of the bodies. Creepy...
Qaddafi becomes premier of Libya
Muammar al-Qaddafi, the young Libyan army captain who deposed King Idris in September 1969, is proclaimed premier of Libya by the so-called General People?s Congress.
Born in a tent in the Libyan desert, Qaddafi was the son of a Bedouin farmer. He attended university and the Libyan military academy and steadily rose in the ranks of the Libyan army. An ardent Arab nationalist, he plotted with a group of fellow officers to overthrow the Libyan monarchy, which they accomplished on September 1, 1969. Blending Islamic orthodoxy, revolutionary socialism, and Arab nationalism, Qaddafi established a fervently anti-Western dictatorship. In 1970, he removed U.S. and British military bases and expelled Italian and Jewish Libyans. In 1973, he nationalized foreign-owned oil fields. He reinstated traditional Islamic laws, such as prohibition of alcoholic beverages and gambling, but liberated women and launched social programs that improved the standard of living in Libya. More...
2001 - Wikipedia goes online
The online encyclopedia has since become the largest reference work on the internet.
1992 - Croatia and Slovenia are internationally recognized as independent nations
The Yugoslav federation effectively collapsed as a result.
1973 - Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam
The fighting continued anyway until the capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army on April 30, 1975.
1892 - The rules of Basketball are published
Canadian James Naismith invented the sport for his gym class at YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1759 - The British Museum opens
Its collection comprises 8 million items and it is one of the most comprehensive collections in the world.
Historic Trivia pickIn February of 1948, dozens of ships near Indonesia started receiving distress calls from the Dutch ship SS Ourang Medan. The messages read ?All officers including captain are dead lying in the chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.? This was followed by a series of indecipherable Morse Code messages, and then one final one, ?I die?. When the ship was later discovered however, the messages paled in comparison to the bodies of the crew. Everyone on the ship was dead, and every body was frozen in place looking up at the sun, with arms outstretched and a contorted, almost anguished look on their faces. And maybe the most strange of all, there were no signs of injuries on any of the bodies. Creepy...
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