Today in History 02/02/17

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Author: James Joyce
First published: Feb 02, 1922
ATOS reading level: 7.50
Followed by: Finnegans Wake
Characters: Molly Bloom · Leopold Bloom · Blazes Boylan · Patrick “Paddy” Dignam · Milly Bloom · Gerty MacDowell · Simon Dedalus · Stephen Dedalus · Buck Mulligan · Garrett Deasy · D. B. Murphy · Father John Conmee
Preceded by: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Lived: 1923 – Aug 16, 2003
Height: 6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
Spouse: Sarah Kyolaba (m. 1975 – 2003) · Madina Amin (m. 1972 – 2003) · Nora Amin (m. 1967 – 1974) · Malyamu Amin (m. 1966 – 1974) · Kay Amin (m. 1966 – 1974)
Movies: General Idi Amin Dada
Previous offices: President for Life (1976 – 1979) · President of Uganda (1971 – 1979)
Children: Maimuna Amin (Daughter) · Kato Amin (Son) · Ali Amin (Son) · Mwanga Amin (Son) · Hussein Amin (Son) · Iman Aminu (Daughter) · Taban Amin (Son) · Wasswa Amin (Son) · Jaffar Amin (Son) · Moses AminHighlights
- 1966: He married his first and second wives, Malyamu and Kay, in 1966.
- 1971: Having learned that Obote was planning to arrest him for misappropriating army funds, Amin seized power in a military coup on 25 January 1971, while Obote was attending a Commonwealth summit meeting in Singapore.
- 1972: Amin retaliated against the attempted invasion by Ugandan exiles in 1972, by purging the army of Obote supporters, predominantly those from the Acholi and Lango ethnic groups.
- 1975: It was a British comedy album parodying Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, released in 1975 on Transatlantic Records.
- 1980: Brian Barron, who covered the Uganda–Tanzania war for the BBC as chief Africa correspondent, together with cameraman Mohamed Amin of Visnews in Nairobi, located Amin in 1980, and secured the first interview with him since his deposition.
- 2003: Amin’s family decided to disconnect life support and Amin died at the hospital in Jeddah on 16 August 2003.
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Born: Mar 18, 1936 (age 80) · Johannesburg, South Africa
Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Spouse: Elita Georgiades (m. 1998) · Marike de Klerk (m. 1959 – 1998)
Previous offices: Deputy President of South Africa (1994 – 1996) · State President of South Africa (1989 – 1994) · State President of South Africa (1989 – 1994)
Awards: Nobel Peace Prize (1993) · Time Person of the Year (1993) · Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize (1991) · Philadelphia Liberty Medal (1993) · Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
Parties: National Party · New National PartyHighlights
- 1990: A couple of months later, in February 1990, he suddenly lifted the bans on the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa, released Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners.
- 1996: He was one of the deputy presidents of South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela until 1996, and is the most recent white South African and Afrikaner to have held the position.
- 1998: F.W. de Klerk married Elita Georgiades on November 07, 1998.
- 1999: In 1999, de Klerk established the pro-peace FW de Klerk Foundation of which he is the chairman.
- 2001: On 4 December 2001, Marike de Klerk was found stabbed and strangled to death in her Cape Town flat.
- 2003: On 15 May 2003, he received two life sentences for murder, as well as three years for breaking into Marike de Klerk’s apartment.
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