Category: Today In History

Julius Caesar 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. 1783 – In an emotional...

Lee Harvey Osawald talking to reporters before being murdered by Jack Ruby. Watch the footage. 1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1558 – Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman Emperor 1757 – On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for...

Jacqueline Roque was Pablo Picasso’s muse and second wife.  Their marriage lasted 11 years, during which time he created  over 400 portraits of her. 607 – 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1639 – Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1677 – Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 1759 – 27th recorded...

1350 -The city of  Orvieto says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples 1365 – University of Vienna founded 1664 – New Jersey becomes a British colony 1755 – First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine 1849 – First gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California 1850 – First...

537 – Goths lay siege to Rome 1669 – Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1702 – First English daily newspaper “Daily Courant” publishes 1789 – Benjamin Banneker with L’Enfant begin to lay out Washington District of Columbia 1824 – US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs George B. McClellan and Mary...

1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran. 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America“, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves...