362 Martyrdom of Theodoritus, a Greek-speaking Syrian Christian priest, during the reign of Emperor Julian the Apostate. His relics will be taken to Uzès in the south of France and placed in a cathedral dedicated to him.
1633 Battle of Liaoluo Bay: Dutch East India Company defeated by Chinese Ming naval forces in southern Fujian sea
1721 Tsar Peter the Great becomes “All-Russian Imperator”
1746 Revival leader Jonathan Dickinson obtains a charter for the College of New Jersey to train Presbyterian pastors. It will become Princeton University.
1870 Death in Jacksonville, Florida, of James William Charles Pennington, an escaped slave who had become a Presbyterian pastor and abolitionist, author of the autobiographical The Fugitive Blacksmith and of the first history of African Americans published in the United States.
1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
1907 Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to US wide run on banks
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis
Today’s Historical Events
Today in Film & TV
1942 “Now, Voyager” film directed by Irving Rapper starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rain premieres in New York
Today in Music
1883 New York’s original Metropolitan Opera House has its grand opening with a performance of the opera “Faust”
1899 American Presbyterian missionary James B. Rodgers baptizes the first Filipino Protestants to receive the rite.
1987 A volume of Gutenberg’s original Bible is sold at auction at Christie’s for $5.39 million, one of the largest sums ever paid for a printed book.
Today in Sport
1978 New York City Marathon: Grete Waitz of Norway wins in her race debut in world record 2:32:30; Bill Rodgers wins his third straight title in 2:12:12
Do you know this fact about today? Did You Know?
World’s first car dealer opens in London, on this day in 1897
Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop, crosses more than 30 meters of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse, on this day in 1895
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