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What are some famous Cuban poets in history?
Dean da bean.
Did Mark Dean overcome any obstacles in his career?
i think so
What happened on November 10 1946?
January 6 - A revised and streamlined revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre.January 7 - The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with 1937 borders, and divide the country into 4 occupation zones.January 10: First meeting of UN.January 10: Project Diana January 10 The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon, and proving that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the space age.January 11 Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.January 16 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as a head of a French provisional government.January 17 The UN Security Council holds its first session.Senator Dennis Chavez (D-NM) calls for a vote on an FEPC bill which calls for an end to discrimination in the workplace. A filibuster prevents it from passing.January 20 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as president of France.January 22 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.Jan. 28: Bluenose founders. January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.January 28 - The Canadian schooner Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.January 29 - The Central Intelligence Group is established (the CIA in 1947).January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes 6 constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).FebruaryFebruary 1 Trygve Lie of Norway is selected as the first United Nations Secretary General.The Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic.February 14 The Bank of England is nationalized.ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.February 15 - Canada indicts 22 communist agents.February 20 - An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in West Germany.February 24 - Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.February 28 - In Philadelphia, General Electric strikers and police clash.MarchMarch 2 British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty; the Soviets do not.Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.March 4 - C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns as president of Finland.March 5 - In his speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about the Iron Curtain.March 6 Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.March 7 - The 18th Academy Awards ceremony is held.March 9 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes president of Finland.March 10 - British troops begin withdrawing from Lebanon.March 15 - Clement Attlee promises independence to India as soon as they can agree on a constitution.March 19 The Soviet Union and Switzerland resume diplomatic relations.French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.March 22 - The United Kingdom grants Transjordan, as it is then known, its independence; 3 years later the country changes its name to Jordan.[1]March 29 - The Gold Coast has an African majority in its parliament.AprilApril 1 A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii; 173 are killed, thousands injured.The Malayan Union is formed.Singapore becomes a Crown colony.April 3 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila, the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.April 10 - In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet.April 17 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognized.April 18 The United States recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia.The League of Nations, in its last meeting, transfers its mission to the United Nations and disbands itself.April 23 - The Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (Which is now the CBA) is founded.April 27 - FA Cup: Derby County beat Charlton Athletic in the first FA Cup final since the end of the warApril 29 - Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the accused include Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.MayMay 1 - At least 800 Indigenous Australian pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia.May 2 - Six inmates unsuccessfully try to escape from Alcatraz Prison. A riot occurs, the so-called "Battle of Alcatraz".May 7 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.May 9 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, and is succeeded by his son Humbert II.May 10 Nehru is elected leader of the Congress Party in India.The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched at the White Sands Missile Range.May 20 - The British House of Commons decides to nationalize mines.May 21 - At the Los Alamos Laboratory, Dr. Louis Slotin saves his coworkers but receives a fatal dose of ionizing radiation (the incident is initially classified).May 22 - The Kingdom of Transjordan is founded.May 25 - The parliament of Transjordan makes emir Abdullah their king.May 26 - Czechoslovak parliamentary election, with Communist victory (38%), last before communist take powerMay 31 - A Greek referendum supports the return of the monarchy.JuneJune 1 - Ion Antonescu, prime minister and "Conducator" (Leader) of Romania during World War II is executed; he was found guilty of betraying the Romanian people for benefits of Germany and sentenced to death by the Bucharest People's Tribunal.June 2 - In a referendum, Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a republic. Women vote for the first time.June 6 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.June 8 - In Indonesia, Sukarno incites his supporters to fight Dutch colonial occupation.June 9 - In Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) accedes the throne after the mysterious death of his brother, King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).June 10 - Italy is declared a republic.June 13 - Humbert II of Italy leaves the country and goes into exile in Portugal; Alcide de Gasperi becomes head of state.June 17 A tornado on the Detroit River kills 17.Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in England. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.June 23 - 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake.JulyJuly 4 Ankara University is founded in Turkey.After over 381 years of Western dominance, the Philippines attains full independence.July 5 - Bikinis go on sale in Paris.July 7 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.July 21 - An Irgun bomb explodes in Jerusalem because of secretive talks between Jews and Britain to consolidate the state of Israel.July 22 - King David Hotel bombing: The Irgun bombs the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British civil and military administration) in Jerusalem, killing 90.July 25 Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.AugustAugust 1 - The Hungarian Forint is introduced in Hungary by the government, ending the world's biggest hyperinflation in the country.August 3 - Holiday World, originally called Santa Claus Land, opens to the public. It became the 1st themed park preceding Disneyland by 9 years.August 4 - The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake (magnitude 8.0) hits the northern Dominican Republic, killing 100, and leaving 20,000 homeless.August 18 - The Vergarolla explosion in Croatia kills 70.August 19 - Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta leaves 3,000 dead.August 25 - Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship.SeptemberSeptember 2 - Interim Government of India takes charge with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President.September 4 - Street violence between Muslims and Hindus erupts in Bombay.September 8 - Bulgaria is declared a People's Republic after a referendum; King Simeon II leaves.September 24 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded by Roy C Farrell and H de Kantzow.September 28 - George II of Greece returns to Athens.OctoberOctober 1 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.October 2 - Communists take over in Bulgaria.October 13 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.October 15 - Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.October 16 Nazi War criminals convicted in the Nuremberg Trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held.NovemberNovember 1 - The New York Knicks play against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks win 68-66.November 6 - Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans.November 8 - Vietnamese riot in Haiphong and clash with French troops. The French cruiser Suffren opens fire, killing 6,000 Vietnamese.November 10 At least 1,400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale, in the Ancash Region and Quiches District in Peru.The Slimbridge Wetland Reserve opens in England.November 12 A truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army in Indonesia.In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (now part of the LaSalle Bank) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.November 15 - The Netherlands recognizes the Republic of Indonesia.November 17 - Eight British servicemen are killed in Jerusalem by Jewish nationalists.November 19 Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.Romanian general election, 1946: The Romanian Communist Party wins 79.86% of the vote through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud.November 22 - Tony Benn is elected as Treasurer of the Oxford Union.November 23 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.November 27 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."DecemberDecember 1 - Miguel Alemán Valdés takes office as President of Mexico.December 2 The International Whaling Commission was signed in Washington to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".December 7 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, United States kills 119.December 11 - UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.December 12 The United Nations severs relations with Franco's Spain and recommends that member countries sever diplomatic relations.Léon Blum founds a government of socialist parties in France.A communist government takes power in Tabriz, Iranian Azerbaijan Province.December 16 - Siam joins the United Nations (changes name to Thailand in 1949).December 19 - Martial law is declared in Vietnam.December 20 Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.At least 1,362 people are killed in an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.December 22 - The Havana Conference begins between U.S. organized crime bosses in Havana, Cuba.December 24 - France's Fourth Republic is founded.December 26 The Flamingo Hotel opens on the Las Vegas Strip.David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.December 31 - President Harry Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially ends hostilities in World War II.
Did anything famous happen in 1995?
All in all it was a pretty dull year...January• January 1 - The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).• January 1 - Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join the European Union.• January 1 - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.• January 2 - The Most distant Galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii (est. 15 billion light years away).• January 2 - Bus crashes in Luzon, Philippines, killing 29 people.• January 4 - The 104th United States Congress, the first controlled by Republicans in both houses since 1953 to 1955, convenes.• January 6-7 - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, is arrested 1 month later.• January 9 - Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.• January 16 - An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.• January 17 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called the "Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.• January 25 - Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.• January 29 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers become the first National Football League franchise to win 5 Super Bowls, as they defeat the San Diego Chargers at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida.• January 30 - John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia.• January 31 - U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.February• February 1 - Lyricist/guitarist Richey Edwards of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers goes missing from a hotel in Bayswater, London on the eve of a planned tour of the United States. His car is found 2 weeks later at Severn View services in Aust.• February 9 - STS-63: Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and Briton, respectively, to walk in space.• February 13 - A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity.• February 15 - Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.• February 15 - Taiwan's deadliest fire, at a karaoke restaurant in Taichung, kills 64.• February 15 - In Dublin, a Republic of Ireland vs. England football match in Lansdowne Road is abandoned, due to violence and rioting.• February 17 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of 6 counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.• February 21 - Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.• February 21 - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far-right National Front activists.• February 21 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.• February 23 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 - the Dow's first ever close above 4,000.• February 26 - The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.• February 27 - In Denver, Colorado, Stapleton Airport closes and is replaced by the new Denver International Airport, the largest in the United States.• February 28 - Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in Minnesota of manufacturing ricin.March• March 1 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy.• March 1 - In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman.• March 1 - Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California.• March 2 - Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.• March 3 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.• March 6 - On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.• March 13 - David Daliberti and William Barloon, two Americans working for a military contractor in Kuwait, are arrested after straying into Iraq.• March 14 - Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.• March 16 - Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The amendment was nationally ratified in 1865.• March 20 - Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring 5,510.• March 22 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.• March 24 - For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.• March 26 - The Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.• March 27 - The 67th Academy Awards, hosted by David Letterman, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with Forrest Gump winning Best Picture.• March 30 - A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of Japan.• March 31 - Tejano superstar Selena is killed by the president of her own fanclub, Yolanda Saldívar.April• April 2 - An explosion in Gaza kills 8, including a Hamas leader.• April 5 - The U.S. House of Representatives votes 246-188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.• April 7 - House Republicans celebrate passage of most of the Contract with America.• April 19 - Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off the bomb.• April 24 - A Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in Sacramento, California.• April 28 - In Daegu, South Korea, a gas explosion at a subway construction site kills 101 persons, mostly teenage schoolboys.May• May 1 - Jacques Chirac is elected president of France• May 7 - Finland wins the ice hockey world championship.• May 11 - More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.• May 13 - An earthquake hits the regions of Kozani and Grevena in Greece, with an intensity of 6.6 on the Richter scale.• May 14 - The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.• May 14 - Team New Zealand wins the America's Cup in San Diego, beating Stars and Stripes 5-0.• May 16 - Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.• May 17 - Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.• May 20 - U.S. President Bill Clinton indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, to vehicular traffic in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.• May 21 - Pope John Paul II canonizes John Sarkander during his visit to Olomouc, the Czech Republic.• May 23 - Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.• May 24 - AFC Ajax wins the UEFA Champions League in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating AC Milan 0-1 by a goal of Patrick Kluivert. This was the third consecutive win of AFC Ajax over AC Milan that season, ranking AFC Ajax on the 4th place on the list of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners.• May 25 - Egan v. Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada rules that discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.• May 27 - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.• May 28 - A 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Neftegorsk, Russia kills at least 2,000.June• June 1 - The busiest hurricane season in 62 years begins.• June 2 &ndash Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O'Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines six days later.• June 2 - Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy.• June 6 - U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir.• June 13 - French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.• June 15 - During his murder trial, O.J. Simpson puts on a pair of gloves that were presumably worn by the person who murdered his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman.• June 15 - A powerful earthquake, registering a moment magnitude of 6.2, hits the city of Aigio, Greece, resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings.• June 20 - Oil multinational Royal Dutch Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.• June 22 - Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.• June 24 - The New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win their first Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.• June 24 - South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup.• June 29 - Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.• June 29 - STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.• June 29 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.• June 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.July• Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31.• Midwestern United States heat wave: An unprecedented heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States for most of the month. Temperatures peak at 106 °F (41 °C), and remain above 94 °F (34 °C) in the afternoon for 5 straight days. At least 739 people die in Chicago alone.• July 1 - Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.• July 4 - UK Prime Minister John Major wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative Party.• July 5 - The U.S. Congress passes the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, requiring that producers of pornography keep records of all models who are filmed or photographed, and that all models be at least 18 years of age.• July 10 - Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.• July 11 - Bosnian Serbs march into Srebrenica while UN Dutch peacekeepers leave. Large numbers of Bosniak men and boys are killed in the Srebrenica massacre.• July 13 - Dozens of cities, most notably Chicago and Milwaukee, set all-time record high temperatures. Hundreds in these and other cities die as the Chicago Heat Wave of 1995 reaches its peak.• July 17 - The Nasdaq Composite index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.• July 21-26 - Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.• July 23 - David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans held as spies by Iraq, are released by Saddam Hussein after negotiations with U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson.• July 27 - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.• Iraq disarmament crisis: Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.August• August 4 - Croatian forces launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, and force them to withdraw to central Bosnia and Herzegovina.• August 5 - Croatian forces take Knin and continue to advance.• August 6 - Hundreds in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb.• August 7 - Operation Storm ends with a UN-brokered ceasefire; remaining Serbian forces start surrendering.• August 11 - The Russell Hill subway accident results in 3 deaths and 30 injuries in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.• August 14 - An avalanche buries Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; she is reported dead.• August 24 - Microsoft releases Windows 95.• August 28 - A Serbian mortar bomb near a Sarajevo market square kills 37 civilians.• August 29 - Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.• August 30 - The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into October. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia, and Bosnian Krajina.September• September - The DVD, an optical disc computer storage media format, is announced.• September - The European Parliament elects the first European Ombudsman, Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995.• September 4 - eBay is founded.• September 4 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.• September 6 - NATO air strikes continue, after repeated attempts at a solution with the Serbs fail.• September 6 - Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles breaks the all time consecutive games played record in MLB.• September 19 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.• September 22 - American millionaire Steve Forbes announces his candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.• September 23 - Argentine national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on charges of industrial espionage. His sales to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran are believed to have involved Intel and AMD trade secrets worth USD$10-20 million.• September 26 - The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia connections, begins.• September 27-28 - Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros; the local army does not resist.October• October 1 - Ten people are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993.• October 3 - O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.• October 4 - France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France; Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.• October 4 - Hurricane Opal makes landfall at Pensacola Beach, FL as a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds.• October 6 - Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed Extrasolar planet.• October 9 - 1995 Palo Verde derailment: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.• October 15 - The Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the New York Jets at Clemson Memorial Stadium in South Carolina.• October 16 - The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C.. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.• October 17- French woman Jeanne Calment reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days, making her the oldest person ever recorded.• October 23 - In Houston, Texas, Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of Selena Quintanilla Perez and 3 days later is sentenced to life in prison.• October 24 - A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.[1]• October 25 - A Metra commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing 7 students.• October 26 - An avalanche hits the village Flateyri in Iceland, killing 20 people.• October 28 - Fire breaks out on a crowded metro train in Baku, Azerbaijan, killing more than 300 passengers (the world's worst metro disaster).• October 30 - Quebec independantists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.November• November 1 - NASA loses contact with the Pioneer 11 probe.• November 1 - Participants in the Yugoslav War begin negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.• November 1 - The U.S. House of Representatives votes to ban partial birth abortions by a vote of 288-139.• November 2 - The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of Erich Priebke, ex-S.S. captain.• November 3 - At Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.• November 4 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.• November 10 - Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from Israel and Jordan, UNSCOM inspector Scott Ritter intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia.• November 10 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with 8 others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, are hanged by government forces.• November 12 - The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the Harare Declaration, is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government.• November 14 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the Congress of the United States, forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums, and run most government offices with skeleton staff.• November 16 - A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladic with genocide during the Bosnian War.• November 21 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses 2 millennium marks in a single year.• November 21 - The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio (signed December 14).• November 22 - Rosemary West is sentenced to life for killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff (the other is Myra Hindley).• November 22 - Six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo's child abuse-related death at the hands of her mother makes headlines, and instigates major reform in New York City's child welfare system.• November 22 - Egypt, Eilat, Israel, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake (7.2 Mw) along the Dead Sea Transform in a century; 8 are killed.• November 22 - The first ever full length computer animated feature film "Toy Story" was released by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.• November 28 - The Barcelona Treaty is signed by 27 attending nations.• November 28 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the National Highway Designation Act, which ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.• November 30 - Javier Solana becomes the new NATO General Secretary; Operation Desert Storm officially ends.December• Strikes paralyze France's public sector.• December 7 - NASA's Galileo probe reenters over Jupiter.• December 8 - Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, suffers a massive stroke and lapses into a coma.• December 14 - The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris.• December 15 - The European Court of Justice rules that all EU football players have the right to a free transfer among member states at the end of their contracts.• December 15 - Because of the "quadruple-witching" option expiration, volume on the New York Stock Exchange hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since October 20, 1987, when the Dow staged a stunning recovery a day after Black Monday.• December 16 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the United Nations Special Commission, dredge the Tigris near Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.• December 20 - American Airlines Flight 965 (Boeing 757) crashes into a mountain near Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia after veering off its course en route to Cali, Colombia. Of the 164 people on board, four passengers and a dog are the only survivors.• December 30 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982.• The Republic of Texas group claims to have formed a provisional government in Texas.• December 31 - The final original Calvin and Hobbes comic strip is published.Births• January 4 - María Isabel, Spanish singer• January 5 - Jordan Orr, American actor• January 12 - Laurel McGoff, American singer and actress• January 13 - Qaasim Middleton, American actor• February 8 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress• March 27 - Taylor Atelian, American actress• March 29 - Marc Musso, American actor• April 6 - Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese singer• May 12 - Luke Benward, American actor and singer• May 12 - Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten, American actors• May 15 - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer• May 24 - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein• May 31 - Alissa Musto, American singer and pianist• July 3 - Alex Steele, Canadian actress• July 7 - Chloe Greenfield, American actress• July 9 - Georgie Henley, English actress• August 8 - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer• August 18 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress• August 23 - Eliza Pineda, Filipina actress• September 20 - Sammi Hanratty, American actress• September 22 - Juliette Goglia, American actress• November 16 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor• December 6 - Joy Gruttmann, German singer• December 24 - Soleil Borda, Iranian actressDeaths• January 1 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)• January 2 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)• January 2 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)• January 4 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)• January 7 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)• January 7 - Larry Grayson, British comedian and game show host (b. 1923)• January 9 - Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937)• January 18 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)• January 18 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)• January 22 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)• January 30 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)• January 31 - George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b. 1887)• February 2 - Fred Perry, English tennis champion (b. 1909)• February 2 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)• February 4 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)• February 5 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)• February 6 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)• February 9 - David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)• February 12 - Robert Bolt, English writer (b. 1924)• February 12 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (b. 1952)• February 14 - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)• February 19 - Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, British politician (b. 1933)• February 19 - John Howard, American actor (b. 1913)• February 22 - Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)• February 23 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (b. 1942)• February 23 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)• February 24 - Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (b. 1914)• February 24 - Tatsumi Kumashiro, Japanese film director (b. 1927)• February 26 - Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)• March 1 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956).• March 3 - Howard W. Hunter, American Mormon leader (b. 1907)• March 5 - Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. 1943)• March 7 - Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)• March 8 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)• March 12 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)• March 13 - Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)• March 13 - Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine (b. 1912)• March 14 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)• March 16 - Albert Hackett, American dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1900)• March 17 - Ronald Kray, British organised crime leader (b. 1933)• March 17 - Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)• March 18 - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b. 1920)• March 19 - Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b. 1932)• March 20 - Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (b. 1906)• March 20 - John William Minton American Wrestler (Big John Studd) (b. 1948)• March 22 - Peter Woods, British journalist, reporter and newsreader (b. 1930)• March 23 - Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)• March 26 - Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer (b. 1963)• March 27 - Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (b. 1948)• March 28 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor the son of Carroll O'Connor (b. 1962)• March 29 - Tony Lock, English cricketer (b. 1929)• March 31 - Selena Quintanilla Perez, Mexican American singer (b. 1971)• April 2 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (b. 1904)• April 2 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish chemist, Nobel-prize (b.1908)• April 4 - Kenny Everett, British comedian (b. 1944)• April 4 - Priscilla Lane, American actress (b. 1915)• April 10 - Morarji Desai, Indian politician (b. 1896)• April 14 - Burl Ives, American singer (b. 1909)• April 15 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter and serigrapher (b. 1903)• April 16 - Cy Endfield, American screenwriter (b. 1914)• April 18 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)• April 20 - Milovan Đilas, Yugoslavian Marxist (b. 1911)• April 23 - Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b. 1918)• April 24 - Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (b. 1924)• April 25 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)• April 25 - Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (b. 1907)• April 25 - Andrea Fortunato, Italian football player (b. 1971)• May 2 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)• May 5 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)• May 5 - Al Sanders, American news anchorman (b. 1941)• May 6 - Noel Brotherston, Irish footballer (b. 1956)• May 8 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)• May 12 - Arthur Lubin, American film director (b. 1898)• May 14 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)• May 15 - Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)• May 15 - Woldeab Woldemariam, Eritrean Politician (b. 1905)• May 15 - Ben Bubar, American activist (b. 1917)• May 18 - Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b. 1903)• May 18 - Alexander Godunov, Russian-born ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)• May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)• May 24 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)• May 26 - Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905)• May 27 - Severn Darden, American actor (b. 1929)• May 28 - Irfan Ljubijankic, Bosnian diplomat (b. 1952)• May 30 - Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)• June 7 - Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist master (b. 1918)• June 12 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)• June 15 - Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (b. 1899)• June 20 - Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)• June 23 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)• June 25 - Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)• June 26 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)• June 29 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)• June 30 - Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1921)• June 30 - Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)• July 1 - Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (b. 1938)• July 3 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis champion (b. 1928)• July 4 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)• July 4 - Bob Ross, American television painter (b. 1942)• July 5 - Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (b. 1905)• July 16 - Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (b. 1904)• July 16 - Stephen Spender, English poet and writer (b. 1909)• July 17 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (b. 1911)• July 17 - Harry Guardino, American actor (b. 1925)• July 18 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)• July 21 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (b. 1899)• July 24 - Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)• July 24 - George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)• July 25 - Charlie Rich, American singer (b. 1932)• July 27 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian composer (b. 1907)• July 29 - Philippe De Lacy, American actor (b. 1917)• August 1 - Esther Muir, American actress (b. 1903)• August 3 - Ida Lupino, British actress (b. 1914)• August 3 - Edward Whittemore, American author and Central Intelligence agent (b. 1933)• August 4 - J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (b. 1905)• August 7 - Brigid Brophy, English author (b. 1929)• August 9 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (b. 1942)• August 11 - Phil Harris, American actor (b. 1904)• August 13 - Mickey Mantle, baseball player (b. 1931)• August 15 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)• August 17 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1901)• August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)• August 21 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)• August 24 - Gary Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1933)• August 24 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (b. 1898)• August 29 - Michael Ende, German author (b. 1929)• August 29 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)• August 30 - Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)• August 30 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (b. 1942)• September 11 - Jimmy Ryce, American abducted child (b.1985)• September 12 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)• September 15 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)• September 15 - Dietrich Hrabak, German World War II flying ace (b. 1914)• September 15 - Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)• September 17 - Grady Sutton, American actor (b. 1906)• September 19 - Orville Redenbacher, American entrepreneur and businessman (b. 1907)• September 20 - Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b. 1920)• September 25 - Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)• September 25 - Pedro Nolasco, Dominican republican boxer (b. 1963)• October 1 - Margaret Gorman, First Miss America winner (b. 1905)• October 5 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)• October 9 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)• October 12 - Johnny Gammage, African American motorist• October 21 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (b. 1916)• October 21 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)• October 21 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (b. 1967)• October 22 - Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)• October 22 - Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910)• October 25 - Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)• October 25 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis champion (b. 1918)• October 26 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)• October 26 - Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b. 1909)• October 29 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)• November 4 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)• November 4 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)• November 4 - Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)• November 7 - Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States (b. 1942)• November 12 - Robert Stephens, British actor (b. 1931)• November 13 - Ralph Blane, American composer (b. 1914)• November 20 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)• November 21 - Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)• November 22 - Elisa Izquierdo, American murder victim (b. 1989)• November 23 - Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)• November 24 - Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b. 1909)• November 30 - Stretch, American rapper and record producer (b. 1972)• December 2 - Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)• December 2 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)• December 3 - Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)• December 7 - Kathleen Harrison, British actress (b. 1892)• December 9 - Vivian Blaine, American actress (b. 1921)• December 10 - Darren Robinson, American rapper and actor (b. 1967)• December 16 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)• December 18 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b. 1910)• December 20 - Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)• December 22 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)• December 22 - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)• December 23 - Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)• December 25 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-American musicologist (b. 1894)• December 25 - Dean Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1917)• December 30 - Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)• December 30 - Heiner Müller, German poet and playwright (b. 1929)
What important historical events happened Mississippi?
16th Century1540-1541 - Hernando De Soto, Spanish explorer, becomes the first European to enter Mississippi. Wintering with the Chickasaws and discovers the Mississippi River in the spring.17th Century1673 -Father Jacques Marquette, a French missionary, and fur trapperLouis Joliet begin exploration of the Mississippi River on May 17. They reach Mississippi in July and explore as far south as the mouth of the Arkansas River, near the present location of Rosedale, before turning back.1680 -Father Louis Hennepin sees the Falls of St. Anthony, future site of Minneapolis.Mississippi Valley in Minnesota is center of Dakota culture.1682 - Robert Cavalier de La Salle navigates the Mississippi River to its mouth and claims for France all lands drained by the river.1699 - Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur D'Iberville and brother, Jean Baptiste, Sieur D'Bienville, landed in what is now Ocean Springs. They built Fort Maurepas and established the first capital of the French colony in North American.18th Century1700s -French fur trading era begins.Ojibwe begin moving into area from Great Lakes, gradually pushing Dakota south and west1716 - Fort Rosalie, the beginning of the town of Natchez, is established.1718 - French officials establish rules to allow slave imports into the Biloxi area1719 - First slave shipments arrive; most early slaves are Caribbean Creoles1724 - Black Code is enacted and slavery is defined in the Mississippi territory1729 - French settlers at Fort Rosalie are massacred by Natchez Indians in an effort to drive Europeans from Mississippi.1732 -French retaliate for the massacre at Fort Rosalie.Natchez Indians cease to exist as a tribe.1736 - Bienville battles Chickasaw Indians in present day Lee County. He is defeated at the battle of Ackia.1763-1779 - English Dominion - British administer Natchez and Biloxi as the Province of West Florida; British slave traders bring large numbers of Jamaican-born African Caribbeans to the Natchez region1763 Mississippi, along with all other French territory east of the Mississippi river, passes into English control at the end of the French and Indian War.1779-1798 - Spanish Dominion - Natchez region is governed by the Spanish, who encourage the slave trade by offering land grant bonuses to settlers who transport slaves1779 - Bernardo Galvez, governor of Spanish Louisiana, captures Natchez.1781-1783 Under provisions of the Treaty of Paris, West Florida, which included the southern half of Mississippi, comes under Spanish control. America gains possession of Mississippi north of the 32 degree 28 minute parallel.1795-1810 - Cotton replaces tobacco as the main cash crop; demand for slave field workers grows substantially1795 - Pinckney Treaty with Spain transfers the territory along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River to the United States1797 - Spain yields to America all land in Mississippi north of the 31st parallel, giving America control of Natchez.1798-1817 - Mississippi Territory1798 -The Spanish withdrawal from Mississippi is completed.Mississippi is organized as an American territory, and the first territorial governor, Winthrop Sargent, is appointed by President Thomas Jefferson.United States begins to administer the Natchez region; attempts to limit the slave trade are thwarted by white settlers1801 - Mississippi advances to the second stage of territorial government.1801-1837 - Various Indian land cessions lead to the removal of all Indians east of the Mississippi by 1837; opening of new lands resulting from each cession creates land rushes and increased demand for additional African American slaves1801-1802 -A treaty with the Indians allows the Natchez Trace to be developed as a mail route and major road.Mississippi moves its territorial capital from Natchez to Washington, a small town near the Natchez Trace.1803 -The Louisiana Purchase opens the Mississippi River for Commerce.1805 - By the Treaty of Mount Dexter, the Choctaws sell 4.5 million acres of land to the US government. The area includes the Piney Woods region of the state.1805 - Lt. Zebulon Pike explores Upper Mississippi, setting up posts in what will be Minnesota.1810 - West Florida rebellion gives the United States control of Spanish West Florida.1812 -The War of 1812 begins.Mississippi gains West Florida territory east of the Pearl River and south to the Gulf of Mexico.1814-1815 The War of 1812 ends.1816 - The Treaty of Fort Stephens with the Choctaws opens for settlement the area around the Tombigbee Prairie.1817 - State of MississippiDecember 10 - Act of Congress admitted Mississippi to the Union as the twentieth state.Indian lands in Mississippi were opened to white settlement after six major treaties with the Choctaws and the Chickasaws between 1805 and 1834.The Mississippi territory is divided. The western half becomes the twentieth state, Mississippi.1818 - Elizabeth Female Academy is founded in Washington, the first girls' school chartered by the state and one of America's first women's colleges.1819 - Fort Snelling established at confluence of Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, future site of Twin Cities.1820 - The Treaty of Doak's Stand, the second Choctaw cession.1821 - Mississippi's first public school is opened in Columbus.1822 - The state capital is moved to Jackson. Built on the site of Lefleur's Bluff, Jackson was one of the first planned cities in the nation. It was named for Major General Andrew Jackson.1826 - Mississippi College, then Hampstead Academy, is established.1830 -The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek cedes all Choctaw territory east of the Mississippi River to the US Government. Most of the Choctaws leave the state.The Treaty of Pontotoc Creek cedes north Mississippi Indian territory to the US Government. The Chickasaws leave the state for Oklahoma.The Mississippi Constitutional Convention produces the Constitution of 1832.1832 - Henry Schoolcraft is led to the headwaters of the Mississippi by an Ojibwe elder, Ozawindib.1837 - First major commercial logging of white pine forests begins.1838 - Pig's Eye settlement, forerunner of St. Paul, established upstream of Fort Snelling.1842 - Governor Tilghman M. Tucker becomes the state's first chief executive to occupy the newly completed Governor's Mansion, still used today.1844 - The University of Mississippi is established.1848 - State government assumes operation of a private school for the blind. It becomes the Mississippi School for the Blind, the nation's first state-supported institution for the handicapped.1850 -The US Congress gives the state title to more than 3 million acres of swamp and overflow land. By this time, 310 miles of levees have been built along the banks of the Mississippi River. The Delta is drained, cleared, and becomes available for cultivation.The Compromise of 1850 contains slavery to the South.1854 -Mississippi Institute for the Deaf and Dumb opens in Jackson.Henry Hughes of Port Gibson publishes Treatise on Sociology, which later earns him the title "first American sociologist."1861 -January 9 - Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. More than 80,000 Mississippians served in the Confederate States Army.July - Ship Island is captured by Union forces. The fall of Ship Island gives Union forces control of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.1862 -April - Battle of Shiloh gives Union forces control of the Tennessee River and opens the way to attack Corinth, a railroad center vital to the South.May - Corinth falls1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery.1865 - Robert E. Lee surrenders on April 9. The Civil War ends.1867 - A military government is established in Mississippi after the reconstructed government of Mississippi is rejected by the US Congress.1868 - Mississippi's first biracial constitutional convention - the "Black and Tan" Convention" - drafts a constitution protecting the rights of freedmen (ex-slaves) and punishing ex-Confederates. It is rejected by the voters.1869 - Under the leadership of James L. Alcorn, Mississippi ratifies a constitution which does not punish ex-Confederate soldiers.1870 -February 23 - Mississippi is readmitted to the UnionCivil government is gradually restored under Governor Alcorn.The state's first system of public education is established.Senator Hiram R. Revels, a minister from Natchez, becomes the first black senator in US history, and serves as Mississippi's US Senator from January 1870 to March 1871.Using power of river at St. Anthony Falls, milling expands into major Minneapolis industry.1871 - Alcorn University, now Alcorn State University, is organized.1877 -The Mississippi State Board of Health is created through the influence of the State Medical Association.Jackson College, a private college for blacks, is established at Natchez.1878 - Agricultural and Technical School is established. In 1935, it becomes Mississippi State College and in 1958, Mississippi State University.1884 - The Industrial Institute and College, today's Mississippi University for Women, is established.1890 -A new state constitution is adopted.1892 Millsaps College is opened.20th Century1903 - A new capitol building, constructed at a cost of $1 million, is dedicated in Jackson.1907 -The boll weevil arrives in Mississippi, destroying most of the state's cotton crop.William H. Smith organizes the first of the state's "Com Clubs," which leads to the formation of the 4-H Clubs of America.1908 - Mississippi adopts statewide prohibition.1909 - Dr. Laurence C. Jones founds the Piney Woods Country Life School for the vocational and secondary education of black students.1910 - Mississippi Normal College, now the University of Southern Mississippi, is organized.1916 -The Mississippi State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis is established.Governor Theodore Bilbo establishes the state's first Highway Commission.1922 - The State Legislature authorizes a system of junior colleges, the first in the nation.1923 - Two women, Senator Belle Kearny and Representative Nellie Nugent Somerville, are elected to the State Legislature.1924 - Delta State Teachers' College, now Delta State University, is established.1927 - The Mississippi River floods 2,722,000 acres in the Delta. Thousands are left homeless.1929 - The Depression begins.1930 - Lock and dam system -- to facilitate navigation and control flooding -- authorized by Congress.1932 -The state's first sales tax becomes effective.The Natchez Pilgrimage, a nationally-famous tour of that area's antebellum homes, becomes an annual event.1936 - State Legislature passes an amendment to balance agriculture with industry (BAWI Program). The Industrial Commission and the Advertising Commission are created to implement the program, which includes adoption of the nation's first industrial revenue bond.1939 - The state's first oil well is brought in near Tinsley, in Yazoo County.1940 -Jackson College, having earlier moved from Natchez to Jackson, becomes a state institution.Lock and dam system completed1941-1945 World War II promotes an industrial boom in the state.1946 - Mississippi Vocational College, now Mississippi Valley State University, is established.1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark ruling, lays groundwork for desegregation.1962 - James Meredith, the first black registrant, enters the University of Mississippi -- the beginning of the end to segregation in public universities and colleges.1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary, is assassinated.1964 -Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, outlawing segregation in public places.Three civil-rights workers are murdered near Philadelphia, Miss1965 - Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr., announces that the BAWI Program has achieved its goal.1968 -Circuit Court judge 0. H. Barnett rules that Choctaw Indians are subject to their tribal laws, a reversal of an 1830's ruling that abolished tribal government.Robert Clark begins serving his first term in the Mississippi House as its first modern-day black member.1969 -Unitary system of public education is mandated by federal courts, ending segregation in public schools.Hurricane Camille wreaks havoc upon Mississippi's Gulf Coast and areas inland.1970 - Mississippi Authority for Educational Television is established and begins broadcasting.1972 -Work begins on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.Governor William Waller's administration aggressively involves blacks and women in government through key Cabinet, Board and judicial appointments.1976 -Governor Cliff Finch calls a special session of the Legislature to restructure the states savings and loan associations, averting a financial crisis.Governor Finch succeeds in reuniting the long- separated Loyalist and Regular factions of the Mississippi Democratic Party.1978 -US Senator James 0. Eastland retires after 36 years of service.Sixteenth Section Lands and Lieu Lands Act transfers control of Sixteenth Section Lands from county boards of supervisors to local boards of education and requires fair-market rental value on those lands.1979 -Mattie T. Consent Decree initiates procedures providing equal education for handicapped children in the states public schools.Devastating flood inundates the city of Jackson and many towns south along the Pearl River.1982 -Governor William F. Winter calls a special legislative session, resulting in adoption of the historic Education Reform Act, pioneering nationwide school reform.Jackson hosts the International Ballet Competition.1983 - Judge Lenore Prather becomes Mississippi's first woman Supreme Court justice.1984 -Public Radio in Mississippi goes on the air.Governor Bill Allain implements a massive program of governmental reorganization.1985 - Justice Reuben Anderson becomes Mississippi's first black Supreme Court Justice.1986 -The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is completed.Yazoo City lawyer Mike Espy is elected to the US House, the first black congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction.1987 -Senator John C. Stennis, dean of US Senators serving 40 years, announces he will not seek reelection.Ray Mabus is elected governor, the nation's youngest at 39.1988 - A voluntary county unit system law is signed by Governor Mabus.1989 -Fifth District congressman Larkin Smith dies in a plane crash near Hattiesburg.State Senator Gene Taylor of Bay St. Louis wins a spirited special election to succeed him.1990 - Mississippi National Guard men and women play important roles in Operation Desert Storm for America in the Middle East.1991 -Mississippi becomes the nation's 21st state to allow its citizens to register to vote by mail.Kirk Fordice becomes Mississippi's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.1992 - Tornadoes hit Brandon and other parts of Mississippi killing fifteen and injuring about 300 others1994 - One of the nation's strongest lobbying reform laws is passed by the Mississippi Legislature.21th Century2000 - David Ronald Musgrove becomes Mississippi's sixty-second Governor.
What is Walter Dean Myers's occupation?
Walter Dean Myers is a/an Writer
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Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937
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