2023
The UK’s Prince Harry published Spare, his tell-all memoir on his upbringing with the Royal Family.[1]
2022
Maya Angelou became the first African American woman featured on a US quarter.[1]
2018
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ net worth reached $106 billion.[1]
2015
A large group of people was poisoned at a funeral in Mozambique.[1]
1999
The Sopranos, the hit American crime drama, debuted on HBO.[1]
1990
China lifted martial law.[1]
1982
Petra Schneider set a world record by swimming 1,500 meters freestyle in just 15:43:31.[1]
1975
The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 17 was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz rocket.[1]
1870
John D. Rockefeller created Standard Oil Company in Cleveland, Ohio.[1]
1863
London Underground was opened, making it the world’s oldest underground railway system.[1]
1839
Indian Assam Tea was brought to the United Kingdom for the very first time.[1]
1642
King Charles I and the Queen fled from London to Oxford, Hampton Court.[1]
1475
Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.[1]
236 AD
Pope Fabian succeeded Anterus and became the twentieth pope of Rome.[1]
49 BC
Julius Caesar and his armies crossed the Rubicon River, an act that directly led to the Roman Civil War.[1]