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Today in History

• 1450 - 'Abd al-Latif Mirza (Timurid monarch) assassinated.
• 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "New World".
• 1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
• 1901 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
• 1914 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
• 1926 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
• 1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
• 1941 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• 1945 - World War II: Norway arrests Vidkun Quisling.
• 1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British.
• 1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.
• 1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
• 1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• 1955 - Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
• 1956 - First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth highest mountain.
• 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.
• 1980 - The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana.
• 1987 - A Polish LOT Ilyushin IŁ 62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG). crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland killing 183 people.
• 1987 - In Brussels, Belgium, Johnny Logan wins the thirty-second Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "Hold Me Now".
• 2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.

 

Today's Birthdays

• 1912 - Pedro Armendáriz, actor (d. 1963)
• 1936 - Glenda Jackson, actress and politician
• 1946 - Candice Bergen, actress
• 1982 - Rachel Boston, actress