The present of history 2022, 02, 13 birthday Grant Wood (American painter, masterpiece "American Gothic") Yang Jingyu (Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan

The present in history

2022,02,13

birthday

Grant Wood (American painter, Masterpiece American Gothic)

Yang Jingyu (Famous General and Martyr of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China)

William Shockley (inventor of the William Shockley transistor)

Aung San (Aung San, Founding Father of Myanmar)

In 1258 the Mongol Empire occupied Baghdad and the Arab Empire collapsed.

In 1880 Thomas Edison observed the Edison effect, also known as thermionic emission.

In 1912, Sun Yat-sen proposed to the Provisional Senate of Nanjing to resign as provisional president of the Republic of China and give way to Yuan Shikai.

In 1928, British biologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

In 1931 New Delhi (NewDelhi) became the capital of India.

In 1945, The Anglo-American coalition launched a carpet bombing of Dresden, killing more than 20,000 civilians.

In 1960, France successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, becoming the fourth country in the world to possess nuclear weapons.

In 2004, astronomers at Harvard University announced the discovery of the largest known diamond in the universe, the white dwarf star BPM37093, with a radius of 4,000 kilometers.

In 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of former North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il, was assassinated in Malaysia.