Todays History

Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.

Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded

Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.

The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.

Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.