1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1900 US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an ‘open door’ policy in China have essentially accepted his stand
1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed
2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour
Historical Events Today Events in 2023
Today in Film & TV
1952 24th Academy Awards: “An American in Paris”, Humphrey Bogart & Vivien Leigh win
Today in Music
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M deal with Sony Records to produce 6 albums
Today in Sport
1973 Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death in a plane crash
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published in Boston
2017 Indian rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared “living entities” by court in the state of Uttarakhand
Famous Weddings
1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
1878 53rd UK Prime Minister Archibald Primrose (31) weds heiress Hannah de Rothschild (27) at the Board of Guardians in Mount Street, London
1934 Vietnam emperor Bảo Đại (20) weds empress Nam Phương (19) at the imperial city of Huế
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