TODAY’S HISTORY
1806
Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1808
Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
1833
Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
1861
Misssissippi troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island
1863
General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland
1865
NV Suriname Bank established
1883
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires,
built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey
1885
Battle of Abu Klea, Sudan, between the British Desert Column
and Mahdist forces: 76 British and 1,100 Mahdists killed
1903
1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US &
England
1910
Germany & Bolivia end commerce/friendship treaty
1918
Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red
Guards and the White Guard.
1920
Alexandre Millerand forms French government
1922
Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20
years
1923
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin and US
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon agree to reschedule repayment of
Britain's $4.5 billion war debt over 62 years
1934
Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for
reinstatement
1935
KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
1938
General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines
1942
Japanese forces invade Burma
1949
Cuba recognises Israel.
1955
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1st presidential news conference filmed
for TV
1957
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1963
51st Women's Australian Championships: Margaret Court beats
Jan Lehane O'Neill (6-2, 6-2)
1966
Indira Gandhi elected India's 4th Prime Minister
1972
Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall
of Fame
1977
World's largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in
India attracts a then record 15 million people
1978
Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
1981
Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of
committing suicide
1981
US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1988
Disabled writer Christopher Nolan wins the Whitbread Book of
the Year prize
1991
Eastern Airlines shuts down operations
1992
IBM announces a nearly $5B loss
1997
Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years
2003
AFC Championship Game: Oakland Raiders beat Tennessee Titans
41-24
2006
A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
2006
Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself
but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously
2012
FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright
infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government and
entertainment industry websites
2013
Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity
Rover
2016
China's economic growth revealed as lowest for 25 years -
6.9% in 2015
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1757
Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
1807
Robert E. Lee, American General who commanded the
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War, born in
Stratford Virginia (d. 1870)
1832
Ferdinand Laub, composer
1848
John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
1866
Harry Davenport, American actor/director (Her Unborn Child,
My Sin), born in NYC, New York
1879
Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
1889
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Davos Switzerland, painter, sculptor and
dancer
1905
Anne Schumacher Hummert, Baltimore US, leading creator of
daytime radio serials during the 1930s and 1940s
1907
Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), born in
London, England
1912
Leonid V Kantorovich, economist (Nobel), born in St
Petersburg, Russia
1919
Dharam Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1922
Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer (great lefty opening
batsman), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2015)
1924
Nicholas Colasanto, Providence RI, actor (Coach
Ernie-Cheers)
1928
Edward Gerard Schurmann, composer
1940
Mary Mills, American LPGA golfer, born in Laurel,
Mississippi
1940
Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
1943
Janis Joplin, American rocker and blues singer-songwriter
(Down on Me), born in Port Arthur, Texas (d. 1970)
1945
Vadim Abdrashitov, director (Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets)
1950
Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
1960
Alfrederick Joyner, American triple jumper
(Olympic-gold-1984), Eastern St Louis
1963
Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
1972
Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
1974
Frank Caliendo, American comedian
1977
Anne Miller, Midland Mich, tennis star (1995 Darmstadt
Germany)
1984
Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
1992
Shawn Johnson, American Gymnastics Champion
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