Today’s Significant Events
1620 – 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1792 – France’s King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state
1901 – Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical inventor, sends the first transatlantic radio signal
1913 – “Mona Lisa”, stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1931 – Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (which was not at that time part of Canada)
1936 – Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1946 – UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
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Today’s Significant Events
43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.
1783 – William Pitt the Younger (24) becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister
1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2403 people
1965 – Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1988 – 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
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