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2012 Event - President of France, Francois Holland finalizes a deal with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to forgive $4.7 billion dollars in debt incurred by the Ivory Coast when it was a French Colonial Power 1997 Event - David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Ft. Worth Texas 1996 Death - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91 1993 Event - 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8 1968 Event - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted 1959 Birthday - Keith Allen Clearwater, born in Long Beach, California, PGA golfer, 1987 Colonial National 1957 Event - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open 1955 Birthday - Danny Joe Pohl, born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1986 Colonial 1953 Event - French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy 1952 Event - General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia 1946 Event - Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia 1942 Event - KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies 1941 Event - 45th U.S. Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft. Worth 1934 Event - Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya 1933 Event - Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno 1933 Event - Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators 1933 Event - Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname 1926 Event - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution 1925 Event - French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco 1915 Death - Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65 1914 Death - Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Death - Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1909 Death - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65 1909 Birthday - Foley Newns, British colonial administrator 1904 Birthday - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor 1904 Event - Great Britain and France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter 1895 Death - John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74 1892 Event - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded 1879 Event - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins 1856 Death - Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68 1852 Birthday - Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator, French Africa 1849 Birthday - Albert J-BJ Thos, Belgian colonial pioneer, Congo 1844 Birthday - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo. 1838 Death - Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43 1838 Death - Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director, dies at 67 1827 Death - Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54 1823 Death - Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74 1821 Birthday - John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. 1819 Event - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra 1790 Event - Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village 1788 Birthday - Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director 1774 Event - 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights, Philadelphia 1774 Event - 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart 1773 Birthday - Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director 1771 Birthday - Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname 1771 Birthday - Arnold A. Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director 1760 Event - Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves) 1758 Event - English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York 1744 Birthday - John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist 1738 Birthday - John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist 1714 Death - Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56 1690 Event - Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money 1681 Event - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1676 Event - 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass 1668 Death - Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies 1663 Event - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) 1658 Birthday - Antoine Cadillac, french colonial governor of America 1657 Birthday - Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director 1646 Event - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent 1630 Event - 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) 1619 Birthday - John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony |
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