1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1689 Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay
1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
1866 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Eastern steamship
1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
Historical Events Today
Today In Film & TV
1940 Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Wild Hare”
Today In Music
1982 Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s musical “Little Shop of Horrors” opens Off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in NYC
Today In Sport
1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a “900”
More Facts…
1549 1st Christian missionary in Japan, Jesuit priest Francis Xavier reaches Japan but is not permitted to enter any port until 15 August
2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007)
Famous Weddings
1365 Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1857 Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I (25) weds princess Charlotte of Belgium (17) in Brussels
1927 British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (39) weds Elizabeth Carver in Chiswick, England
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