Todays History

McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.

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.