Historical Events
- 585 BC Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians at war with the Medes leads to a truce. One of the cardinal dates from which other dates calculated.
- 1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution
- 1588 King Philip II dispatches the Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia from Lisbon, Portugal to invade England
- 1830 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears
- 1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.
- 1972 White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters and install listening devices at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.
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Today in Film & TV
- 1951 Radio programme "Crazy People" (later titled The Goon Show) premieres on the BBC, created by Spike Milligan
Today in Sport
- 1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
Did You Know?
Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy
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George I
William Pitt the Younger
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Fun Fact About Today
Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, become 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
Famous Weddings
- 1368 Lionel of Antwerp (29), son of Edward III of England marries second wife Violante Visconti (13) in Milan. Attending are three of Medieval Europe's most famous writers - Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean Froissart and Petrarch
- 1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
- 1948 Film director Stanley Kubrick (19) weds high school sweetheart Toba Metz
Famous Divorces
- 1533 The Archbishop of Canterbury voids the marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn
- 2013 Actress Courteney Cox and actor David Arquette divorce after 13 years of marriage
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