Forth Bridge, Scotland
- 1386 – Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila was crowned Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland, beginning the Jagiellonian dynasty.
- 1890 – The Forth Bridge (pictured), a railway bridge connecting Edinburgh to Fife over the Firth of Forth, opened, becoming an internationally recognised Scottish landmark.
- 1918 – The first known case of the so-called Spanish flu was first observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
- 1987 – US President Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in which he accepted full responsibility for illegal actions in the Iran–Contra affair.
- 2007 – Fourteen-year-old English schoolgirl Charlotte Shaw drowned on Dartmoor, becoming the first person to die in connection with the annual Ten Tors challenge.
Miriam Makeba (b. 1932) · Bobbi Kristina Brown (b. 1993) · Saladin (d. 1193)
from Wikipedia "On this day..." feed http://ift.tt/2m5ChRr
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire