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Palm Sunday Coup in El Salvador: On 2 April, the army attempted to oust President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. 20 July plot in Germany: Part of Operation Valkyrie, the German resistance and German Reserve Army attempted to kill Adolf Hitler and seize control of the Third Reich in order to negotiate peace with the Allies. The coup failed ...
Louis Lépecq de La Clôture (12 July 1736 – 5 November 1804) was a French surgeon and epidemiologist. His work consisted mainly of a 15-year observation of the relations between climate, geography and pathologies in Normandy .
[2] 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. [3] 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). 1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
Cloture (UK: US: / ˈ k l oʊ tʃ ər /, [1] [2] also UK: / ˈ k l oʊ tj ʊər /), [3] closure [4] or, informally, a guillotine, [4] is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. The cloture procedure originated in the French National Assembly, from which the name is taken. Clôture is French for ...
The first cloture vote occurred in 1919 to end debate on the Treaty of Versailles. Although cloture was invoked, the treaty was then rejected against the wishes of the cloture rule's first champion, President Wilson. [25] During the 1930s, Senator Huey Long of Louisiana used long filibusters to promote his populist policies.
The sequence alu (ᚨᛚᚢ) is found in numerous Elder Futhark runic inscriptions of Germanic Iron Age Scandinavia (and more rarely in early Anglo-Saxon England) between the 3rd and the 8th century. The word usually appears either alone (such as on the Elgesem runestone ) or as part of an apparent formula (such as on the Lindholm "amulet" (DR ...
Jane Avril, c. 1892, by Toulouse-Lautrec. Jane Avril (9 June 1868 – 17 January 1943) was a French can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings. Extremely thin, "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive. [2]
Canal du Midi: Current owner: State of France: Original owner: Pierre-Paul Riquet: Principal engineer: Pierre-Paul Riquet: Other engineer(s) Marshal Sebastien Vauban, Louis Nicolas de Clerville, François Andréossy: Date approved: 1666: Construction began: 1667: Date of first use: 20 May 1681; 343 years ago () Date completed: 15 May 1681 ...