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Historical Events In Previous Years Of The Horse
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Friday is the start of the Chinese New Year – also known as the Lunar New Year, so we decided to look back at every "Year of the Horse" for the past 144 years to see what happened in the world during those years.
Historical events for 1990
January 14 – "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
February 11 – Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
March 14 – Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
October 3 – East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
November 22 – Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
Historical events for 1978
March 16 – Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
July 25 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
August 12 – China & Japan sign peace treaty
December 16 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
Historical events for 1966
January 17 – Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
February 3 – 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
February 3 – 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
May 16 – Cultural Revolution started in China
July 1 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
August 10 – 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
Historical events for 1954
January 21 – 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
March 1 – US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
May 17 – Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
May 24 – IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
September 20 – 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
Historical events for 1942
January 1 – US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
January 20 – Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews
January 26 – 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
June 4 – Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
June 25 – Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
December 2 – 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
Historical events for 1930
January 13 – "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
February 18 – US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
March 8 – Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
July 30 – Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
September 14 – Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth, Ohio Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
Historical events for 1918
May 21 – House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
September 11 – Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
November 11 – Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WWI hostilities end at 11.00 am
Historical events for 1906
April 18 – SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of city
May 22 – Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
Octobert 3 – SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
Historical events for 1894
January 8 – Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
April 14 – 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
June 23 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
July 4 – Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
Historical events for 1882
August 7 – Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
August 20 – Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
September 4 – 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)
October 6 – 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
Historical events for 1870
January 25 – Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
March 30 – 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race, Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
June 14 – All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
July 19 – France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
August 15 – Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
September 2 – Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies