Historical Events
- 1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
- 1893 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange
- 1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns triumphantly to Addis Ababa
- 1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
- 1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
- 1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building
- 1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26-year-old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in Prison Maze. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
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Today in Film & TV
- 2018 Childish Gambino [Donald Glover] releases the music video to new single "This is America" to wide acclaim
Today in Music
- 1891 Music Hall (now Carnegie Hall) opens in New York City, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of the New York Music Society Orchestra
Today in Sport
- 1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in "modern" baseball as the Boston Americans beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0
- 1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign #1 NBA Draft pick, star UCLA center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
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Fun Fact About Today
"West Side Story" soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
Famous Weddings
- 1761 Jurist William Blackstone (37) weds Sarah Clitherow
- 1797 Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
- 1885 German author and future Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann (22) weds Marie Thienemann in Radebeul, Saxony; separate in 1893, divorce in 1904
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