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Today in History
- 1554 City of São Paulo founded in Brazil
- 1565 Battle of Talikota: The Deccan Sultanates destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India
- 1840 American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent
- 1949 First Israeli election won by David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party
- 1971 Military coup in Uganda led by Major General Idi Amin
- 2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
Today in Film & TV
Today in Music
- 1817 Gioachino Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" (Cinderella) premieres at Rome's Teatro Valle
Today in Sport
- 1924 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France
Did You Know?
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" is first played at the wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Victoria, and the Crown Prince of Prussia
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Robert Burns
1759 - 1796
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1882 - 1941
Eduard Shevardnadze
1928 - 2014
Corazon Aquino
1933 - 2009
Volodymyr Zelensky
48th Birthday
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Etta James
1938 - 2012
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71st Birthday
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46th Birthday
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45th Birthday
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24th Birthday
Fun Fact About Today
Journalist Nellie Bly beats the fictional journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg "Around the World in 80 Days," completing it in 72 days
Famous Weddings
- 1533 England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, his 2nd wife
- 1871 US President William McKinley (27) weds Ida Saxton (23) at the First Presbyterian Church in Canton
- 1964 American MLB baseball player Pete Rose (22) weds first wife Karolyn Englehardt; divorce in 1980
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