1838 - The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is established
1881 - Lord Salisbury becomes Leader of the Tory Party
1906 - Pierre Curie killed
1925 - Hugh O'Brian born
1933 - Jayne Mansfield born
1935 - Dudley Moore born
1946 - Tim Curry born
1949 - Paloma Picasso born
1956 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries film actress Grace Kelly in a religious ceremony at the Cathedral of Monaco.
1962 - Al Unser born
1966 - Suge Knight born
1968 - Ashley Judd born
1970 - Luis Miguel Basteri born
1972 - The British army is largely cleared of blame for Bloody Sunday which ended in the deaths of 14 civilians in Northern Ireland.
1979 - Kate Hudson born
1981 - Hayden Christensen born
1987 - Maria Sharapova born
1993 - 77 people die in a fire at the besieged headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas.
1995 - A huge car bomb explodes at a government building in Oklahoma, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring more than 500 others.
2001 - The world's biggest pharmaceutical companies back out of a landmark court battle over cheap anti-Aids drugs.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as the Pope, taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
No comments:
Post a Comment