1558 Elizabeth I aged 25, ascends the English throne upon death of her half sister, Queen “Bloody” Mary.
1800 Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building
1831 Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia.
1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas.
1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship.
1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
Today’s Historical Events
Today in Film & TV
1933 Marx brothers film “Duck Soup” directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers is released in the US
Today in Music
2003 Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Today in Sport
2013 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins record 8th consecutive Formula 1 race with victory in United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas
Do you know this fact about today? Did You Know?
1888 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’ conducts the premiere of his 5th Symphony at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia
Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
1973 US President Richard Nixon tells AP “…people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook”.
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