Todays History

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.

Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d’état in Afghanistan.

An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.