TODAY’S HISTORY
1799
British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces
income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon
1812
Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1834
Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
1848
1st commercial bank in SF established
1855
"Guiding Star" disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead
1861
Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1912
US Marines send troops to Honduras
1917
World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian
border with Palestine
1937
Italian regime bans marriages between Italians &
Abyssinians
1945
US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
1951
Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1953
Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan
killing 249
1954
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan &
Leonie Adams
1960
Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1962
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968
Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
1969
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill travels
to London to meet Home Secretary James Callaghan and brief him on the growing
violence in Northern Ireland
1973
Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1978
Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1983
British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
1988
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1990
64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches
into orbit
1998
Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess
title
2001
Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San
Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos. Now widely used
by Windows and Mac users
2002
Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at
the American music awards
2005
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the
Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh
2007
Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
2012
Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the second
consecutive year
2014
Taliban suicide car bomb assassinates senior police officer
Chaudhry Aslam and kills three others in Pakistan
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1894
Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist
1896
Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d.
1971)
1897
Luis Gianneo, composer
1903
Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
1913
Richard Nixon, Yorba Linda, California, 37th President (R)
of the United States (1969-74)
1926
Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor
of Quebec (d. 2002)
1928
Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, born in
Polignano A Mare, Apulia (d. 1994)
1936
Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1940
Barbara Buczek, composer
1944
Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d.
2002)
1958
Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John
Paul II
1968
Katie Anderson, Canada 100m hurdler (Oly-7th-92, 96), born
in Kingston, Jamaica
1969
Johanna Ikonen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1972
Kristie Hicks, Bardstown Kentucky, Miss America-Kentucky
(1996)
1974
Craig Wishart, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South
Africa 1995)
1976
Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
1978
Chad Johnson, American football player
1982
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [Kate Middleton], English
wife of Crown Prince William, born in Reading, Berksire
1989
Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1997
Lauryn McClain, American actress and singer
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