Category: It happened today…
19 January It Happened Today
1807 Birth of American general Robert E Lee. 1915 German Zeppelin airships drop the first bombs on England, hitting Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in East Anglia. 1939 Birth of American singer Phil...
18 January It Happened Today
1778 English navigator Captain James Cook discovers Hawi 1871 Wilhelm of Prussia is proclaimed the first German emperor. 1882 Birth of the British author A A Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh. 1888 Birth...
17 January It Happened Today
1706 Birth of American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin. 1773 Captain Cook’s ship Resolution becomes the first vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle. 1874 Death of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng. The twins...
14 January It Happened Today
1742 Death of Sir Edmund Halley, British Astronomer Royal. 1878 Alexander Graham Bell gives Queen Victoria a demonstration of his new invention, the telephone. 1941 Birth of American actress Faye Dunaway. 1957 Death...
13 January It Happened Today
1926 Death of Wyatt Earp, hero of the gunfight at the OK Corral. 1926 Birth of Michael Bond, author of the Paddington Bear children’s books. 1941 Death of the Irish author James Joyce....
