Squiz the Day / 12 February 2021
Squiz the day
Friday
Lunar New Year rings in the Year of the Metal Ox
More social distancing restrictions to ease in NSW
Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin (1809)
• US President Bill Clinton’s acquittal by the Senate in his impeachment trial (1999)
• the start of trial of former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He died before its conclusion (2002)
• the Morrison Government lost a substantive vote in the House of Representatives, the first such loss in 78 years (2019)
Saturday
World Radio Day
Anniversary of:
• the start of the bombing of Dresden by Allied forces (1945)
• British boy band Take That officially announcing that they are disbanding, prompting the UK Government to set up counselling phone lines (1996). And it’s former member Robbie Williams’ birthday (1974)
• Former PM Kevin Rudd’s apology speech to Stolen Generations (2008)
Sunday
Valentine’s Day
Wear Red Day for heart disease
International Book Giving Day
Birthdays for Michael Bloomberg (1942) and Cadel Evans (1977)
Anniversary of:
• the release of the original Dracula film starring Bela Lugosi (1931)
• the patenting of the first microchip (called “micro on a chip”) by Texas Instruments (1978)
• the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which prompted protests against gun violence in the US (2018)
• the death of Captain James Cook (1779)
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