歴史上の今日

1492 : Columbus' fleet anchors at Fernandina (Long Island Bahamas)

1781 : Washington takes Yorktown

1834 : London parliament catches fire: historic documents burn

1846 : Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether

1847 : Charlotte Bronte's book 'Jane Eyre' published

1848 : First US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania

1915 : Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria

1916 : T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein

1923 : Disney Co founded

1923 : John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)

1925 : Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution

1966 : Joean Baez & 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland

1968 : During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute

1972 : Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up

1985 : Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip

1987 : 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England

1993 : IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast 10 killed

2008 : Britney Spears sets a new record for the biggest jump to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 rising from number 96 to number one in just one week with her single 'Womanizer'. It is Spears' first American number one since her debut single '...Baby One More Time'. (The record has since been broken by Kelly Clarkson). It also garnered first-week download sales of 286000 the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist

2018 : Canada legalises the sale and use of cannabis becoming the second country in the world to do so after Uruguay in 2013