This date marks World Bartenders Day. We all can agree that Bartenders are often everyone’s favorite person during a night out. As you ponder on the lessons you’ve got from interacting with them, allow us to take you down in history to understand what major events made headlines.
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- 1868 -US House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
- 1924 – Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail.
- 1942– A series of anti-aircraft engagements over the city in response to a rumored but false Japanese attack.
- 1942– The Voice of America went on air for the first time.
- 1944- Minister of War Juan Perón led a coup in Argentina.
- 1945- The prime minister of Egypt Dr. Ahmed Maher Pasha was assassinated after reading a declaration of war against the Axis powers.
- 1960- The Italian government of Antonio Segni came to an end.
- 1966- Coup ousted the President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah.
- 1968– American Marines and South Vietnamese soldiers recaptured the city of Hue from North Vietnamese forces.
- 1968– Discovery of 1st pulsar announced by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
- 1977– US President Jimmy Carter announced that the US foreign aid will consider human rights.
- 1978- The musical group Fleetwood Mac won a Grammy Award.
- 1981– Britain’s Prince Charles announced his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer.
- 1987– Radio personality Larry King suffered a heart attack.
- 1991– A ground troop invasion of Kuwait and Iraq was initiated by the U.S. on this date.
- 1997– Deng Xiaoping the former paramount leader of China was cremated five days after he passed away.
- 2006– President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in an attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
- 2014– Pope Francis created a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time.
- 2020– Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape and a criminal sexual act in a landmark case that ignited the #MeToo movement.
- 2020- Memorial service for NBA star Kobe Bryant was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.