1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo de’ Medici and kill Giuliano de’ Medici in Florence
1920 Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis hold “great debate” on the nature of nebulae, galaxies and size of the universe at US National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France’s Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, arrested for treason
1956 First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1986 World’s worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe
2005 Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
Historical Events Today Events in 2023
Today in Film & TV
1954 “Seven Samurai”, Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, is released
Today in Music
1965 Charles Ives’ 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York, 11 years after the composer’s death
Today in Sport
1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity – 1st time this defense used successfully in the US
1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
Famous Weddings
1709 Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel
1923 English prince Albert Duke of York (George VI) (27) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (22) at Westminster Abbey
1946 Father Divine, controversial religious leader claimed to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement
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