60 St Paul shipwrecked at Malta
1720 Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain
1824 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo
1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
1952 India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power
HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY
TODAY IN FILM & TV
1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
1993 “Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey” airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
TODAY IN MUSIC
1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st Ever Gold Record for selling 1 million copies of “Chattanooga Choo Choo”
TODAY IN SPORT
1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
DO YOU KNOW THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY?
1940 “Tom & Jerry” cartoon created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera debut by MGM
WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY?
1996 IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
FAMOUS WEDDINGS
1840 British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later the Prince Consort at St James’ Palace
1858 US President Millard Fillmore (58) weds Caroline Carmichael (43) in Albany, New York
1863 P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren, both midgets, in NYC
