Historical Events
- 1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)
- 1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
- 1877 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
- 1898 Spanish–American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
- 1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
- 1967 American General William Westmoreland says in a Vietnam War news conference that the enemy has "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily"
- 2023 India surpasses China as the worlds most populous country according to UN estimates, with 1,425,775,850 people (estimated to reach 1.7 billion by 2064) [1]
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Today in Film & TV
- 1962 Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: California to Massachusetts
Today in Music
- 2018 Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time according to IFPI
Today in Sport
- 1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
Did You Know?
STS-31 launches, the 35th mission of the US Space Shuttle program, carrying the Hubble space telescope
Famous Birthdays
- William I of Orange
1533 - 1584 - Philippe Pétain
1856 - 1951 - William Joyce
1906 - 1946 - Lou Thesz
1916 - 2002 - Richard M. Daley
82nd Birthday - Alexis Ohanian
41st Birthday
Celebrity Birthdays
- Paula Yates
1960 - 2000 - Shirley MacLaine
90th Birthday - Barbra Streisand
82nd Birthday - Sachin Tendulkar
51st Birthday - Kelly Clarkson
42nd Birthday - Lydia Ko
27th Birthday
Famous Weddings
- 1558 Mary, Queen of Scots (15) marries French dauphin Francis (14) at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
- 1575 William I of Orange marries 3rd wife Charlotte de Bourbon and former French nun
- 1854 Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (23) weds Elisabeth, Duchess of Bavaria (16) at the Augustinerkirche, Vienna
Famous Divorces
- 2007 Recording artist and the most-awarded female act of all-time Whitney Houston (43) divorces R&B singer-songwriter Bobby Brown (38) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage