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
1865 Henry Ballantine mastered Marathi to preach Christ in India
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
2020 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people
TODAY’S HISTORICAL EVENTS
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 Garry Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion (22), with a 13-11 win over fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov
DO YOU KNOW THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? DID YOU KNOW?
1888 – Jack Ripper’s 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? WOULD YOU BELIEVE?
1842 – The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
