Police Hit Squad Kills Students, Olympics Boss Steps Down Because of What He Said Of Women, True Power and What Makes You Itch
February 12 was certainly a day to go down in history!
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Quote of the day
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. | Leo Buscaglia
Did you know?
Bacteria on your skin cause your itches. Specifically, bacteria known as Staphylococcus aureus can release a chemical that activates a protein in our nerves. This sends a signal from our skin to our brains, which our brain perceives as an itch.
On this day in history, February 12
1554 A year after being on the throne of England for just nine days, Lady Jane Gray, 16, is beheaded for ‘treason’ by order of her successor, Queen Mary, AKA ‘Bloody Mary’.
1593 Japanese invasion of Korea: About 3 000 Joseon defenders repel more than 30 000 Japanese soldiers in the Siege of Haengju.
1809 Author and naturalist Charles Darwin is born in Shrewsbury, England. Best known for his work, On The Origin Of Species, concerning the widely accepted theory of evolution.
1924 Howard Carter examines boy king Tutankhamun when the lid of the sarcophagus is lifted for the first time in 3 300 years.
1946 Operation Deadlight ends in the scuttling of 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1947 Christian Dior unveils a ‘New Look’, helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1989 Student activists Porta Shabangu, Thabo Mohale and Derrick Mashobane are ambushed and shot in Swaziland by a team from the South African Police’s Vlakplaas death squads, under command of Eugene de Kock.
2019 US national debt tops $22 trillion for the first time. Today the figure is a mammoth $38.59tn – a rise of a staggering $2tn in one year.
2019 Nasa data shows the world has become greener – 5% leafier since early 2000s, mostly due to tree planting in China and intensive farming in India.
2019 A rare black leopard is seen for the first time in nearly 100 years in Laikipia County, Kenya.
2021 Tokyo Olympics Chief Yoshiro Mori resigns after his comments that talkative women made meetings ‘drag on too long’.
2022 French forces say they have killed 40 fighters in air attacks in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks on Benin border.
2023 India opens the first part of what will be its longest freeway (1 400km) linking Mumbai and New Delhi.
2024 The oldest-known Stone Age megastructure, used for hunting, is found submerged in the Bay of Mecklenburg, off Germany. The structure – named the Blinkerwall – is a low stone wall about 1km long and made between 11 700 and 9 900 years ago.
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