1576 Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp
1794 The London Missionary Society is founded.
1841 First wagon train arrives in California
1845 First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
1862 American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
1879 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus
1884 C. T. Studd, one of a group of Christian students known as The Cambridge Seven, meets missionary Hudson Taylor and is accepted for service in the China Inland Mission.
1898 Pan Xiushan, the first Christian convert of the Hmu tribe in China’s Guizhou Province, becomes also the tribe’s first martyr when struck down with a sword. Minutes later William Fleming, a missionary for whom he translated, is also killed, the first martyr of the China Inland Mission.
1922 Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
1928 A. W. Tozer begins his long-lasting Chicago ministry.
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain
TODAY’S HISTORICAL EVENTS
TODAY IN MUSIC
1876 Johannes Brahms’ 1st Symphony in C premieres in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden
TODAY IN SPORT
1987 NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
DO YOU KNOW THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? DID YOU KNOW?
James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio, on this day in 1879
WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? WOULD YOU BELIEVE?
John Lennon utters his infamous line at a Royal Variety Performance “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…” in London, on this day in 1963
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