On This Day in History
Events in History
- 64 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
- 532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
- 711 Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic
- 1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
- 1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais
- 1425 Duke John VI of Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
- 1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia
- 1524 Peasants' War begins in Germany's Black Forest
Samuel Colt
Lizzie Borden
Alexander the Great
Mad Dog Coll
Edmund HillaryWeddings in History
- 1770 Founding Father of the United States John Dickinson (37) weds land and estate owner Mary Norris (30) in a civil ceremony
- 1928 Physicist Enrico Fermi (26) weds writer Laura Capon in Rome, Italy
- 1932 "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35)
- 1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) weds Edwin Schlossberg (41) at the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Centerville, Massachusetts
Agustín de Iturbide
Syngman Rhee
Noel Wien
Guglielmo Marconi