This day in history

Le 2 aout:

1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1934 - Adolf H*tler becomes F*hrer of Germany.
1939 - Albert Einstein signs a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author, is born.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
2000 - Republicans nominate Texas Gov. George W. B*sh for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
2004 - Monday demonstrations against social cutbacks began in Germany.

Y'a pas a dire, ca vaut pas le 20 juillet:

1304 - Francesco Petrarch is born.
1848 - The "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" at Seneca Falls, N.Y., U.S.A demands women's equality with men before the law, in education and employment, and for the first time demands that women be given the right to vote.
1925 - Jacques Delors is born.
1926 - A convention of the M*thodist Church votes to allow women to become priests. (none too soon)
1933 - Vice-Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen and Vatican Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations. (no comment)
1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
1944 - World War II: Adolf H*tler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1947 - Carlos Santana is born.
1960: Ceylon chooses the world's first ever woman head of government, Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.
1989- Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
2001 - Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.
2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
Colombia - Independence Day

Source: most of it verbatim from Wikipedia. Les "*" c'est comme d'hab, pas envie de me retrouver sur des moteurs de recherche avec des mots comme ca.