TODAY’S HISTORY
1559
Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1822
Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected
president of the legislative assembly.
1889
The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine
Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
1915
Japan claims economic control of China
1934
8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1937
Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends
after both forces withdraw
1943
World War II: The Soviets begin a counter-offensive at
Voronezh
1950
4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in
Washington, D.C.
1955
USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1965
Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic lake
Chagan, Kazakhstan
1966
The First Nigerian Republic is overthrown in a military coup
d'etat
1971
Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
1973
US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action
in N Vietnam
1985
Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21
years
1987
A police officer who mistakenly shot and paralysed an
innocent woman in Brixton, UK, is cleared of all criminal charges
1991
Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
1991
Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to
institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so
1997
Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1998
NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
2001
Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2007
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief
and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief
judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
2013
83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack
on Aleppo University, Syria
2013
19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in
a train accident in Giza
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1841
Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
1863
Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
1870
Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954)
1875
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia
(1932-53), born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd (d. 1953)
1882
Princess Margaret of Sweden (d. 1920)
1891
Ray Chapman, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians)
and only MLB player to die from an injury received during a MLB game, born in
Beaver Dam, Kentucky (d. 1920)
1906
Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate
1912
Michel Debré, French politician (d. 1996)
1929
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and leader of the
Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1968)
1936
Concepcion Picciotto, American peace activist (longest
political protest in US history, outside The White House), born in Vigo, Spain
(d. 2016)
1955
Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster (RAI)
1956
Mayawati, Indian politician
1958
Boris Tadić, President of Serbia
1963
Lijuan Geng, Hebei China, Canadian tennis player
(Olympics-96)
1969
Rob van Dijk, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1973
Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
1984
Victor Rasuk, American actor
1996
Dove Cameron, American actress ("Liv and Maddie"),
born in Seattle, Washington
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