Todays History

The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain

Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.

World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.

Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.

Japan declares war on Germany.

The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.

Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.

Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred…

The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.

The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England’s most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.