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1488<\/strong> Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after rounding the Cape of Good Hope.<\/p>\n 1832<\/strong> French engineer Alexandre Eiffel is born in Dijon, France. He designed the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Paris International Exposition and helped design the US Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n 1840 <\/strong> Napoleon Bonaparte gets a French state funeral in Paris \u2013 19 years after his death.<\/p>\n 1890<\/strong> Lakota leader Sitting Bull \u2013 one of the leaders at the Battle of Little Big Horn, where one of America\u2019s favourite sons, General George Custer and his 6th Cavalry were slaughtered \u2013 is killed along the Grand River in South Dakota as his warriors tried to prevent his arrest, in the Wounded Knee Massacre.<\/p>\n 1899 <\/strong> The British under General Redvers Buller make a frontal attack in the Battle of Colenso to relieve Ladysmith. They lose more than 1\u2009100 men to the Boers\u2019 eight. This third British defeat brings \u2018Black Week\u2019 to an end.<\/p>\n 1914<\/strong> A gas explosion at Mitsubishi H\u014dj\u014d coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687 people.<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong> Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer is the first to fly over Mt Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n 1939 <\/strong>Gone with the Wind<\/em> (the highest inflation adjusted grossing film) makes its premi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n 1944 <\/strong> Big-band leader, Glenn Miller dies when his plane crashes into the English channel.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> Nazi SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death in Jerusalem for his role in the Holocaust. Snatched from hiding in Argentina by Israeli secret agents, he organised the deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps. A fellow Nazi said that Eichmann once said \u2018he would leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had 5\u202fmillion people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction\u2019.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> A South Korean ferry capsizes in the Korea Strait, killing more than 300 people.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> Chris Haney and Scott Abbott develop the game, Trivial Pursuit.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> A suicide bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, kills 61\u2009 people, including Iraq\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> EU leaders announce that their new currency would be known as the euro.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27\u202fmillion spent to stabilise it, but without fixing the famous lean, which is why tourists flock to see it. | The Historian<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after rounding the Cape of Good Hope. 1832 French engineer Alexandre Eiffel is born in Dijon, France. He designed the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Paris International Exposition and helped design the US Statue of Liberty. 1840 Napoleon Bonaparte gets a French state funeral in Paris \u2013 19 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}