1568 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II agrees to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire for peace
1865 Columbia in South Carolina burns down during the American Civil War
1876 Sardines first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine
1926 Arrest of Dr. Kao, a Chinese Christian who had moved into the pagan city of Gan-djou to act as a Christian witness. Authorities are angry at him for exposing criminal activities in the city government. He will suffer in jail for many months.
1972 British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market
2017 Discovery of a new mostly underwater continent Zealandia in the South Pacific announced in research journal “GSA Today”
Historical Events Today
Today In Music
1904 Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” premieres in Milan
Today In Sport
1955 Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 (not broken until 2001)
Do You Know This Fact About Today?
1936 The world’s first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, makes his first appearance in comics
Would You Believe This Fact About Today?
2016 Oldest known case of human-Neanderthal sex (100,000 yrs ago) revealed by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), 50,000 yr old Neanderthal woman’s remains from Altai mountains show traces of Homo Sapiens DNA
Famous Weddings
1841 Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d’Oultremont de Wégimont
1906 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice marries in the White House
1950 Natural history broadcaster David Attenborough (24) weds Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel
