Todays History

Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill’]

Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stith_Pemberton’]

Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin’]

The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries’]

Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.\ [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_Greece’]

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher’]

The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history”. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann’]

Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War’]

SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants’]