Category: It happened today…

  1400  Death of English diplomat and poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. 1415  Battle of Agincourt. 1760  Death of King George III of England. 1854  Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimea War. 1881  Birth...

  1648  The Treaty of Westphalia is signed, ending the Thirty Years War. 1937  Jean Batten, the New Zealand aviator, flies from Australia to England in a record time of five days, eighteen hours...

  1642  English Civil War battle of Edgehill. 1915  Death of English cricketer W G Grace. 1925  Birth of American chat show host Johnny Carson. 1950  Death of Al Jolson. 1952  Ukrainian born microbiologist...

  1835  Sam Houston sworn in as president of Texas republic. 1906  Death of French painter Paul Cezanne. 1917  Birth of British actress Joan Fontaine. 1934  ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’, the notorious american gangster is...