Today in history

Kulindahr · Apr 18, 2025

1874: Having died nearly a year earlier (May 1, 1873) in what is now northern Zambia, missionary-explorer David Livingstone (whose remains had been brought, as his tombstone reads, "by faithful hands over land and sea") is interred in London's Westminster Abbey.

unloadonme · Apr 30, 2025

30 April 1945 - Death of Adolf Hitler

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unloadonme · May 8, 2025

8 May 1926 - Birth of Sir David Attenborough OM GCMG CH CVO CBE FRS

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rmcrae · May 16, 2025

May 16, 1966 - American singer-songwriter, actress and dancer Janet Jackson was born.

rmcrae · May 17, 2025

May 17, 2012 - American singer-songwriter and "Queen of Disco" Donna Summer died.

opinterph · May 18, 2025

Kulindahr · May 22, 2025

452: Leo, bishop of Rome, sends three angry letters to protest the Council of Chalcedon's recent elevation of Constantinople to the preeminent see in Christendom. The two cities had been placed on equal footing by a 381 ecumenical council in Constantinople, but Chalcedon tipped the scale, saying that since the imperial capital had moved to "New Rome" (Constantinople), that city deserved the benefits Rome once enjoyed. This event was one of many leading up to the East-West schism of 1054

unloadonme · May 23, 2025

23 May 1706 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, Duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.

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unloadonme · May 24, 2025

24 May 1819 - Birth of Queen Victoria

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Araucaria · May 25, 2025

May 24, 1941-- Birth of Bob Dylan, age 84.

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unloadonme · May 25, 2025

25 May 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.

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Kulindahr · Jun 1, 2025

1578: Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio discovers the Christian catacombs in Rome. Some have mistaken them for places of refuge or worship, but Christians used them mainly as burial chambers.

1638: Puritan pastor Thomas Hooker arrives in what is now Connecticut, after leaving Massachusetts because of a rivalry with Roger Williams. The minister also helped organize America's first federal government, the United Colonies of New England.

unloadonme · Jun 1, 2025

1 June 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Kulindahr · Jun 2, 2025

1979: Pope John Paul II makes a return trip to his home country of Poland, the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

Sniffademskidz · Jun 3, 2025

On 4 June 1738 our longest reigning king George III was born! The first of the Hanoverians to be born in England he is remembered chiefly for losing us the American colonies and for suffering from porphyria which culminated in the last eleven years of his reign with his being close confined in WIndsor Castle!

Despite his plethora of sons only Edward duke of Kent was able to father a legitimate heir, ergo Queen Victoria!

Farmer George as he is reputed to have been known was ostensibly a loving husband and father!

unloadonme · Jun 4, 2025

Sniffademskidz said:
Despite his plethora of sons only Edward duke of Kent was able to father a legitimate heir, ergo Queen Victoria!

On a point of pedantry, the Duke of Kent was not the only son of King George III to father a legitimate heir. The Prince of Wales (later King George IV) also had a legitimate child, Princess Charlotte of Wales, who would have become queen had she not predeceased her father and grandfather.

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Additionally, two of George III's younger sons also had legitimate issue. Prince Ernest Augustus, later King of Hanover, had a son, the future King George V of Hanover. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge was the father of three children and is an ancestor of King Charles III through his granddaughter Mary of Teck.