Bush announces that Kuwait is liberated (1991), and Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo (1617). Born on this day: Elizabeth Taylor, John Steinbeck and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Died: Ivan Pavlov, Lillian Gish and Konrad Lorenz.
30 events, 68 births and 55 deaths on this date.
After weeks of air and ground fighting, President George H. W. Bush declared Kuwait free from Iraqi occupation. The announcement signalled that the US-led coalition had achieved its main aim in the Gulf War.
David Valdez · Public domainSweden and the Tsardom of Russia ended the Ingrian War with this treaty, which cut Russia off from the Baltic Sea. Russia would have no direct access to those waters for nearly a century.
Gestapo officers seized about 1,800 Jewish men who had non-Jewish German wives. Their wives gathered to protest in the street, a demonstration now known as the Rosenstrasse protest.
After years of Haitian rule following the 1822 annexation, Dominican rebels won a war that ended in separation. The day is still celebrated as the nation's independence day, marking the start of its sovereign history.
Bosch, a writer and reformist politician, took office after an election held following decades of rule by Rafael Trujillo. His government lasted only seven months before a military coup removed him from power.
Anguilla, once part of a joint union with Saint Kitts and Nevis, chose to break away and remains a British overseas territory. The federation's own full independence from Britain came later, after a stage of self-government.
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Born in London to American parents, Elizabeth Taylor became one of Hollywood's biggest stars, from National Velvet to A Place in the Sun. She was the world's highest-paid film star in the 1960s, and later also worked as a philanthropist and wrote an autobiography.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
American novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, a story of Dust Bowl migrants that won the Pulitzer Prize. He also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for his realistic and humane writing about ordinary people.
McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74 · Public domain
Longfellow was an American poet and professor, best known for Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante's Divine Comedy in full.
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Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist whose experiments on dogs revealed classical conditioning, the learned link between a signal and a response. He also won the 1904 Nobel Prize for his work on how the digestive system functions.
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Lillian Gish was a silent-film star known for her leading role in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, and later a tireless campaigner for preserving silent cinema. Her screen career stretched across seventy-five years, from 1912 to 1987.
Bain News Service; Uploaded by Calliopejen ; Edited by jjron . · Public domain
Austrian zoologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He showed that some newly hatched birds attach themselves to the first moving thing they see, a discovery that helped found modern ethology.
Max Planck Gesellschaft ( Eurobas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
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