536 Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.
1212 Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz.
1621 Deacon Robert Cushman preaches the first recorded sermon on American soil and the first printed there.
1793 Christian journalist Noah Webster publishes the first issue of American Minerva, the first daily newspaper in New York City.
1896 William Henry Sheppard, an African-American missionary to Africa, writes to supporters at home, promising to prove that he merits the trust they have placed in him. Finding little success as a missionary, he explores the Congo and exposes Belgian atrocities.
1968 NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1990 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland’s 1st direct presidential election in Poland.
1992 Operation Restore Hope: US Marines land in Somalia.
Today’s Historical Events
Today In Film & Tv
1960 1st Broadcast Of “Coronation Street” On British ITV.
Today In Music
1964 John Coltrane’s Quartet records their greatest work “A Love Supreme” at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Today In Sport
1978 1st game of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does.
Do You Know This Fact About Today? Did You Know?
1854 Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” is published in “The Examiner”.
Would You Believe?
1868 The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
