Todays History

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko…

The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize’]

The Genocide Convention is adopted.

A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Greek_republic_referendum’]

The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Opera_House’]

The Nefertiti Bust is discovered. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust’]

Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gazipur’]

The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King’]

A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Hotel_Shamo_bombing’]

Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Bankruptcy’]