1122 Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V
1821 Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence
1862 Otto von Bismarck appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I
1884 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing
1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches “Modicare”, free heathcare for 500 million, world’s biggest healthcare program
HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY
TODAY IN FILM & TV
1962 ABC’s 1st color TV series – The Jetsons by Hanna-Barbera first broadcast
TODAY IN MUSIC
1957 “That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly and The Crickets reaches #1 in the US
TODAY IN SPORT
1845 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released
MORE FACTS…
1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World’s Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman’s hat, man’s pipe & 1,100′ of microfilm)
FAMOUS WEDDINGS
1666 Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren
1862 Russian novelist and author of “War and Peace” Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician
1933 American gangster Sam Giancana (25) weds Angeline DeTolve
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