1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1926 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
1935 Flying boat “China Clipper” takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
Kennedy in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas, moments before he was assassinatedAssassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas
1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany
Historical Events Today
Today In Film & Tv
1995 “Toy Story”, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, is released
Today In Music
1955 RCA Records make its best investment, paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract
Today In Sport
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
2017 Vanellope Wilkins, born with her heart outside her body, is first UK baby to survive birth and operations to reinsert her heart
Famous Weddings
1964 Actress Rosemary Clooney weds actor José Ferrer for the second time in Los Angeles, California
1965 American folk singer Bob Dylan (24) weds American model and actress Sara Lowndes (26); divorce in 1977
1997 “The Lord of The Rings” actor Sean Bean (38) weds actress Abigail Cruttenden (29)
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