1789 William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice
1940 Nazi blitzkrieg and conquest of France begins with the crossing of the Muese River
1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender
2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
2008 Wenchuan earthquake, measuring 7.8 in magnitude occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 87,000, injuring 374,643 and leaving homeless between 4.8 million and 11 million people
Historical Events Today Events in 2023
Today in Film & TV
1994 “Pulp Fiction”, directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson premieres at the Cannes Film Festival (Palme d’Or 1994)
Today in Music
1967 Track Records releases “Are You Experienced” album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience – one of the most influential debut albums ever
Today in Sport
1888 Crouching start 1st used in track and field by Charles Sherrill of Yale
More Facts…
1551 San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens (oldest continuously operating university in the Americas)
1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin
Famous Weddings
1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus
1641 Prince Willem II of Orange (14) marries English princess Mary Henrietta Stuart (9)
1763 Founding Father of the United States Roger Sherman (42) weds second wife Rebecca Prescott (20)
Born in Spain, married in Cyprus, died in France, this wife of a warrior king was never to set foot in the land where she was hailed as Queen – May 12, 1191
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