Todays History

The Princess of Wales, Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in a Paris tunnel.

The city of Melbourne is founded.

The Treaty of Picquigny is signed to ends a short war between France and England.

The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet to end the Battle of Grand Port.

The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends.

The final and worse stages of 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begin.

Captain James Cook begins his first voyage.