Todays History

Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.

Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.

South Africa declares war on Germany.

A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September of 1972” attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the…

Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.

The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.

The Carrington Event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record.

Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.