Alaskan D-Day for Canadian and American forces
Today in History…This Stuff Happened
1529 – Ottaman Sultan Suleiman I begins The Siege of Vienna with his attack on the city. According to culinary legend, this also marks the invention of the crescent shaped croissant.
1777 – In random American history today, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is named the capital of the United States, for one day.
1821 – Felicidades! Today is 189th anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain.
1905 – A German physics journal publishes Albert Einstein’s paper entitled “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, in short: E=mc².
1937 – The Balinese Tiger is declared extinct.
1940 – Germany, Italy and Japan sign The Tripartite Pact thus creating the Axis powers of WWII.
1954 – Tonight! (The Tonight Show) is debuted nationally on NBC.
1979 – The United States Department of Education becomes the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1995 – The United States debuts a new $100 bill. For those unfamiliar with the denomination, Ben Franklin’s portrait is enlarged and moved off center. Of course, in April of this year, a new bill was unveiled, in an attempt to head of counterfeiters. Additions include a disappearing liberty bell and a blue security ribbon.
1998 – A momentous day in internet history: Google is founded.
