Todays History

The People’s Republic of China hosts the USA table tennis team for a week-long visit in an attempt to thaw relations with the United States,

Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to end the Eighty Years’ War.

The retired tennis player Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS that he got from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.

Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout in Newhall, Los Angeles.

The American musician Kurt Cobain takes his own life.

NASA launches Apollo 6.

The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed putting an end to the Italian Wars.

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

The footwear company Dr Martens released its first boots.