Historical Events
- 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first European to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal
- 1915 First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies at Ypres in World War I [1]
- 1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- 1994 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
- 2006 Nepali security forces open fire on Pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters go on to secure the restoration of Parliament and a federal state.
- 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
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Today in Film & TV
- 1954 US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
- 1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female US nightly network news anchor (ABC News)
Today in Music
- 1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet "Swan Lake"
Today in Sport
- 1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game; lose 3-1 before 11,950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park
Did You Know?
More than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the then largest US bank robbery in history
Famous Birthdays
Isabella I of Castile
1451 - 1504
Immanuel Kant
1724 - 1804
Vladimir Lenin
1870 - 1924
Vladimir Nabokov
1899 - 1977
Robert Oppenheimer
1904 - 1967
Eddie Albert
1906 - 2005
Celebrity Birthdays
Bettie Page
1923 - 2008
Glen Campbell
1936 - 2017
Jack Nicholson
87th Birthday
Daniel Johns
45th Birthday
Kaká
42nd Birthday
Amber Heard
38th Birthday
Fun Fact About Today
World's largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made by BonBon, a candy factory in Home-Olstrup, Denmark; record later broken
Famous Weddings
- 1887 Business magnate Andrew Carnegie (51) weds Louise Whitfield (30) in NYC, New York
- 1939 Actor and naval officer of World War II Douglas Fairbanks Jr (29) weds supermarket magnate Huntington Hartford's former wife Mary Lee Hartford
- 1995 "Extra" TV co-host Arthel Neville (32) weds Carolina Panther running back Derrick Lassic (25) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
Famous Divorces
- 1959 Actor Marlon Brando and actress Anna Kashfi divorce
- 1993 Tennis great Björn Borg divorces Loredana Berte
Miguel de Cervantes
Anne Bonny
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Henry Royce
Cesar Chavez
Richard Nixon
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