TODAY’S HISTORY
1493
Columbus leaves the new world and sets sail for Spain on his
1st trip
1761
The British capture Pondicherry, India, from the French.
1900
The US gains control over Tutuila in Samoa and several
smaller Pacific islands
1911
Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west
to east
1917
The Greek Government accepts reparations for Allied losses
sustained in recent actions in Greece
1939
The IRA begins a bombing campaign in England
1943
Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
1945
Adolf Hitler moves into the Fuhrerbunker, his underground
bunker
1951
World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th
St, NYC)
1963
Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
1965
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1967
1st black government installed in Bahamas
1979
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran for Egypt during the
Iranian Revolution
1984
11th
American Music Awards: Pat Benatar & Michael Jackson win
1986
First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
1991
US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US
time)
2001
US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore
Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American
War.
2002
The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms
embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the
remaining members of the Taliban.
2011
French politician Marine Le Pen becomes the leader of the
National Front Party
2013
25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in
Alexandria, Egypt
2014
19th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: 12 Years a Slave wins
Best Film
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1697
Richard Savage, English poet
1853
Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
1895
Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
1901
Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44,
1952-59)
1907
Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
1922
Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1931
Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
1933
Susan Sontag, American author/film director (Benefactor,
1966 Pol Award), born in NYC, New York
1941
Christine Janes, tennis player
1947
Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
1947
Harvey Proctor, British politician
1949
Caroline Munro, Windsor, Berkshire, English actress, model
(The Spy Who Loved Me, Maniac) [or 12/16]
1963
James May, English television presenter
1964
Gail Graham, Vanderhoof BC, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest
Cannon)
1972
Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
1974
Kate Moss, English model (Calvin Klein), born in Croydon,
England
1976
Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
1979
Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
1983
Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
1986
Mason Gamble, actor (Dennis the Menace)
1987
Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
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