1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1878 1st female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company in Boston
1905 Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada
1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig
1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David
1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty
1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan revolution
Today in Film & TV
1954 “Rear Window”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is released
Today in Music
1785 Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
Today in Sport
1972 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer beats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland; most publicised world title match ever played; Fischer 1st American to win title
Do you know this fact about today? Did You Know?
United Nations announces Earth’s population has hit 3 billion
Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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