1398 Tamerlane captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud’s armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at the Sultan’s armored elephants
1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes decree Cum ad zero – forms Inquisition
1788 Russian army of Grigory Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1903 The Wright brothers make the 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1912 William Borden (Borden of Yale) boards a ship for Africa to work as a missionary among Muslims. The rich young man will die in Egypt before his work can begin.
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England
Today’s Historical Events
Today In Film & Tv
1989 “The Simpsons” created by Matt Groening, premieres on Fox TV as a full animated series with the episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”
Today In Music
1865 Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished Symphony” premieres in Vienna with Johann von Herbeck conducting
Today In Sport
1927 Australian cricketing prodigy Don Bradman scores 118 in his 1st-class debut for NSW against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval
Do You Know This Fact About Today? Did You Know?
1900 1st prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy.
Would You Believe This Fact About Today? Would You Believe?
1967 Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, vanishes in mysterious circumstances while swimming near Melbourne
