1287 During St. Lucia’s Flood in Northwest Netherlands the Zuiderzee seawall collapses with loss of over 50,000 lives. Fifth largest recorded flood in history
1542 Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old
1774 First incident of American Revolution – 400 New Hampshire militiamen successfully attack Fort William and Mary
1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s Antarctic expedition is the 1st to reach the South Pole
1995 The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments ending the conflict in the former Yugoslavia including Slobodan Milošević, Alija Izetbegović, Franjo Tuđman and Bill Clinton
Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1993 “Philadelphia” one of the first mainstream films about AIDS, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington premieres in Century City, California
2019 Miss World won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London. First time all five major beauty titles held by black women.
Today in Music
1849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert in Boston
Today in Sport
1947 The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida
1900 Birth of Quantum Physics: German Physicist Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law
2016 University of Toronto scientists present findings of the world’s oldest water – 2 billion years old from a mine in Canada
Famous Weddings
1490 Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria
1780 US founding father Alexander Hamilton (25) weds Elizabeth Schuyler (23) at Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York
1984 Singer and actress Bette Midler (39) weds Martin Von Hasselberg at Starlight Chapel in Las Vegas
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