Todays History

President Truman orders the development of thermonuclear weapons.

In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued…

Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.

Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland

The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding…

Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.