Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has felicitated his once arch-rival Asif Ali Zardari on his election as President of Pakistan for the second five-year term, reminding the entire nation of how the former once threatened to drag the PPP Co-Chairman by the neck across the streets of Larkana and Lahore until looted money was recovered after his first Presidency term was almost over in 2013.
You’d think the hardest part about ranking your 500 favorite Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices songs would be finding 500 songs you really love. On the contrary. This is Bob Pollard we’re talking about. The hardest thing was limiting the list to 500 tracks.
Ramsay MacDonald (Image Source: Wikipedia)
After Stanley Baldwin’s resignation, Ramsay MacDonald forms Britain’s first Labour Government, climaxing 24 years of struggle by the Labour Party. James Ramsay MacDonald was a British politician. In addition, he was the first Labour Party member to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then from 1929–31.
1930: Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
The dwarf planet, Pluto. (Image Source: space.com)
With a surface temperature estimated at approximately -360 Fahrenheit, Pluto was appropriately given the Roman name for the “God of the Underworld” in Greek mythology. On this day in History, Clyde Tombaugh did a photoshoot of Pluto, discovered by Percival Lowell. However, the discovery was publically announced on March 13, 1930 – the anniversary of Lowell’s birth. In addition, William Herschel’s discovery of Uranus was announced.