TODAY’S HISTORY
1781
Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
1784
Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1832
New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1842
4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred
before reaching India
1873
US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
1893
Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1896
Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1898
1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon
Lake
1900
Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
1900
Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso" premieres in
Paris
1903
Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
1913
Attempting to end hostilities in the Balkans, the London
Peace Conference breaks down because Turkey refuses to cede Adrianpole, the
Aegean island, and Crete
1921
The Iraqi Army is formed
1929
Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst
India's poorest and diseased people
1930
1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan)
completed
1936
Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood,
Ontario)
1937
Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110
singles
1953
The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
1974
United Kingdom begins three-day work week during energy
crisis
1974
In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time
commences nearly four months early in the United States
1976
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1980
Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1987
Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of
birth of a galaxy
1992
Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG
1993
55 Kashmiri civilians are killed in Sopore, Jammu and
Kashmir by Indian Border Security Force units
1995
A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila,
Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a
mass-terrorist attack
2012
A suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in
Damascus, Syria, killing 26 people and wounding 63
2013
10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South
Waziristan, Pakistan
2013
The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout
2016
North Korea states that they have successfully tested a
thermonuclear weapon
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1854
Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur
Conan Doyle)
1857
William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1864
Ban Johnson, baseball founder (American League), born in
Norwalk, Connecticut
1903
Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts),
born in Kansas City, Missouri
1905
Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space,
Dark Tides)
1911
Joey Adams, American comedian/actor/columnist (ABC's Back
That Fact), born in Brooklyn, New York
1915
Don Edwards, American politician and civil rights champion
(Rep-D-CA, 1963-94), born in San Jose, California (d. 2015)
1920
John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
1926
Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
1936
Darlene Hard, American tennis player, born in Los Angeles,
California
1939
Murray Rose, Nairn Scotland, Australian Olympic swimmer (4x
oly gold), (d. 2012)
1949
Michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1952
Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1959
Kapil Dev, Chandigarh Punjab, Indian cricketer (India's
finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982)
1962
Michael Houser, Boone North Carolina, American guitarist
(Widespread Panic)
1965
Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
1982
Eddie Redmayne, English actor (The Other Boleyn Girl, The
Theory of Everything), born in London
1985
RP Singh, Indian cricketer
1991
Nikola Saric, Danish footballer
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