Todays History

The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

The European Union’s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis

Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.

The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.

Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.

Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.