Historical Events
- 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge: English army under King Harold II defeat invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed
- 1237 Treaty of York signed between kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland which establishes a boundary between the two countries (mostly unchanged in modern times)
- 1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Panama Isthmus becoming first European to see the Pacific Ocean
- 1789 US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights
- 1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao before a great crowd, guiding a boat from the shore, considered the birth of the remote control
- 1926 Henry Ford announces an 8 hour, 5-day work week for workers at the Ford Motor Company
- 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as the 1st female US Supreme Court Justice
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Today in Film & TV
- 1957 18th Venice Film Festival: Influential Indian film "Aparajito" directed by Satyajit Ray is first film to win the Golden Lion and the Critics Award
Today in Music
- 1975 Pink Floyd's concept album "Wish You Were Here" reaches No. 1 in the US, goes on to sell 13 million copies
Today in Sport
- 1844 Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the first cricket international match at the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club in Manhattan, NYC
Did You Know?
Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra
Today in History in 1939
Famous Birthdays
Henry Pelham
1694 - 1754
Fletcher Christian
Born in 1764
William Faulkner
1897 - 1962
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 - 1975
Ethel Rosenberg
1915 - 1953
Robert Muldoon
1921 - 1992
Celebrity Birthdays
Barbara Walters
1929 - 2022
Christopher Reeve
1952 - 2004
Michael Douglas
79th Birthday
Mark Hamill
72nd Birthday
Will Smith
55th Birthday
Catherine Zeta-Jones
54th Birthday
Would You Believe?
British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
Today in History in 1878
Famous Weddings
- 1845 Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi
- 1873 Frontiersman and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok supposedly marries Calamity Jane according to the latter's daughter (disputed)
- 1889 Future Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (34) weds Canadian suffragette Laura Bond (27), until his death
Clement VII
Coco the Clown
John Bonham
Mary Astor
Andy Williams
Arnold Palmer
Fernando Botero
Jimmy Buffett
Bob Barker
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Michael Parkinson
Paul Reubens
Abraham Lincoln
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass
George Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thomas Edison