Historical Events
- 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, final battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York: Prince of Wales, Edward of Westminster killed and King Edward IV returns to his throne, restoring political stability to England until his death in 1483
- 1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal
- 1814 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism
- 1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal
- 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Today in Film & TV
- 2008 Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep "Family Guy" and "American Dad" on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world's highest paid television writer
Today in Music
- 1959 First Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win major awards
Today in Sport
- 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings play their 1st official baseball game, a win against the Great Western Base Ball Club, 45-9
Did You Know?
"The Don't Make A Wave Committee," a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the "Greenpeace Foundation"
Famous Birthdays
Horace Mann
1796 - 1859
Archibald McIndoe
1900 - 1960
Hosni Mubarak
1928 - 2020
Keith Haring
1958 - 1990
Celebrity Birthdays
Betsy Rawls
1928 - 2023
Audrey Hepburn
1929 - 1993
Richard Jenkins
77th Birthday
Randy Travis
65th Birthday
Mike Dirnt
52nd Birthday
Rory McIlroy
35th Birthday
Fun Fact About Today
Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
Famous Weddings
- 1941 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley (23) weds Ethel Arnold
- 1944 Baseball player Ted Williams marries Doris Soule (divorced 1954)
- 1962 Actor Christopher Plummer (32) weds columnist Patricia Lewis at the Marylebone Registry office in London
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Josip Broz Tito
Adam Yauch
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