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Important Events

  • 1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China
  • 1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
  • 1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
  • 1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
  • 1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened
  • 2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion
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Today in Film & TV

  • 1984 American sitcom "Kate & Allie" premieres on CBS TV starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin

Today in Music

  • 1859 Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris

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Did You Know?

1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

On this day in 1882

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Would You Believe?

The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000, said to have been most powerful Confederate cruiser, discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.

On this day in 1965

Famous Weddings

  • 1918 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (17) weds Daisy Parker (21)
  • 1924 American poet e.e. (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries first wife Elaine Orr. The marriage lasts less than 9 months.
  • 1956 Author Aldous Huxley (62) weds musician and author Laura Archera (45)

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