歴史上の今日

1642 : Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament

1690 : Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking

1814 : First plastic surgery is performed (England)

1824 : First steam locomotive is introduced

1915 : First national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton Iowa)

1915 : 25000 women march in NYC demanding right to vote

1954 : Britain England France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany

1956 : First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast

1972 : Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain

1978 : CBS raises LP prices to 8.98 Dollars

1983 : Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut

1993 : 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast

1998 : Britney Spears' debut single '...Baby One More Time' is released. It would become the top-selling single of 1999 selling over nine million units worldwide

2001 : The first iPod is released by Apple Inc

2001 : The iPod is first introduced by Apple

2001 : The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks

2001 : Apple Computer unveil the first generation iPod portable media player

2015 : Hurricane Patricia becomes the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere with winds of 200 mph and a pressure of 879 mbar

2015 : A 'significant and sustained' cyber-attack is made on the website of telecoms firm TalkTalk with personal and banking details of up to four million customers being accessed

2017 : The number of women alleging sexual misconduct harassment assault or rape by Harvey Weinstein now surpassed 50 women

2017 : Californian artist Marianne Barnard has accused Roman Polanski of sexually assaulting her when she was 10 years old the fifth such allegation of abuse made against the director. She has told the Sun that she was molested by Polanski in 1975 two years before the director fled the US after pleading guilty to statutory rape. The artist claims that the incident took place at a beach in California following a photoshoot where the director asked her to pose naked. Polanski denies the claims.

2018 : The Hong Kong Zhuhai-Macau Bridge the world's longest sea crossing bridge is opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping

2019 : The bodies of 38 adults and a teenager are found in a lorry container in Essex. A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland is arrested on suspicion of murder.

2020 : At the end of an 11-year demining process the Falkland Islands are declared free of land mines 38 years after the end of the 1982 war.