Today in History in 1820 nurse Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy; in 1875 was the first recorded shutout in pro baseball; and in 1907 actress Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
Historical Events
1789 - William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in UK House of Commons, reasons the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice
1875 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1940 - Nazi blitzkrieg conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
1943 - Axis forces in North Africa surrender
2002 - Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2008 - 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people
1950 - Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5)
1956 - Homer Simpson, fictional character from the long running television show "The Simpsons"
1963 - Vanessa A. Williams, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place)
1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
Famous Weddings
1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
1641 - Prince Willem II of Orange (14) marries English princess Mary Henrietta Stuart (9)
1763 - Founding Father of the United States Roger Sherman (42) weds second wife Rebecca Prescott (20)
1956 - NY Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner (25) weds Elizabeth Joan Zieg
1959 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's (27) marries for the 4th time to entertainer Eddie Fisher (30)
Famous Divorces
2004 - Model and actress Ali Landry divorces (30) "Saved by the Bell" actor Mario Lopez (30) due to infidelity only less than 2 weeks after getting married
Famous Deaths
1864 - J.E.B. Stuart [James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart], Confederate General, dies at 31
1970 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78
1980 - Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
1992 - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1994 - Erik Erikson, American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase "identity crisis", dies at 91
2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
2014 - H. R. Giger, Swiss Oscar-winning surrealist artist, dies from injuries from a fall at 74
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