399 Bc Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of the city and for impiety
590 Khosrau II, the last great Sasanian king is crowned King of Persia
1643 John Campanius, Lutheran pastor and missionary to the American Indians, arrives in America (New Sweden on the Delaware River).
1739 Five slaves on St. Thomas Island, writing on behalf of 650 persecuted Christian brothers and sisters, address a letter to the king of Denmark telling of the violence they have experienced from white owners; their owners also burn their books and declare that a “baptized black is no more than kindling wood for the fires of hell.”
1763 Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign the Treaty of Hubertusburg, marking the end of the French and Indian War and of the Seven Years’ War
1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged presidential election in the Philippines
2001 First draft of the complete human genome is published in the journal “Nature”
2003 An estimated 6-11 million people around the world take to the streets to protest against war with Iraq
Historical Events Today
Today In Film & TV
2005 YouTube, Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States
Today In Music
1941 Duke Ellington first records “Take the A Train”
Today In Sport
1932 As a member of gold medal winning US 4-man bobsleigh team at Lake Placid, Eddie Eagan (boxing gold Antwerp 1920) becomes only Olympian to win gold medals at both summer & winter Games in different sports
Do You Know This Fact About Today?
1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
Would You Believe This Fact About Today?
1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
Famous Weddings
1867 Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (45) weds Anna Snitkina at Trinity Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia
1919 Author Maurice Maeterlinck (56) weds actress Renée Dahon (27) in Nice, France
1943 Model Bettie Page (19) weds high school sweetheart Billy Neal in Gallatin, Tennessee
