1494 Piero the Unfortunate of the de’ Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses his power and flees the state
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul
1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1994 Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany
1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing – largest civil settlement in US history
Historical Events Today
Today In Film & Tv
1984 Wes Craven’s horror film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” premieres in the US
Today In Music
1858 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
Today In Sport
1985 Russia’s Garry Kasparov (22) becomes the youngest ever world chess champion, with a 13-11 win over fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov
1888 Jack Ripper’s 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1842 The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
Famous Weddings
1866 Tsarevich Alexander of Russia (later Alexander III) marries Princess Dagmar of Denmark at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
1887 Anna Mary Robertson (27), later to become painter known as Grandma Moses, weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York
1899 US Admiral of the Navy George Dewey (61) weds Mildred McLean Hazen at the rectory St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.
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