Todays History

Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.

A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.

Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.