May 24, 2013
Today is 144th day of the year
222 days remain until the new year
222 days remain until the new year
Births Today
- 1819 - Queen Victoria
- 1836 - "Joseph Rowntree, Founder of 'Rowntrees' confectioners"
- 1855 - "Arthur W. Pinero, English playwright"
- 1928 - "Stanley Baxter, Comedian"
- 1941 - "Bob Dylan, American singer/songwriter"
- 1943 - "Gary Burghoff, US actor; played 'Radar' in TV's M*A*S*H"
- 1966 - "Eric Cantona, Controversial French footballer"
events today
- 1862 - "Westminster bridge, across the Thames, was opened"
- 1916 - Conscription began in Britain
- 1941 - "HMS Hood, a British warship, was sunk by the German battleship 'Bismark'"
- 1948 - The USSR stopped road & rail traffic between Berlin & the West
- 1956 - "The 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha was celebrated in India"
- 1958 - The nuclear reactor at Dounreay began working
- 1976 - Concordes from Britain & France flew to Washington D.C for the first time
- 1982 - "The British ship 'HMS Antelope' sank after a fire, in the Falklands conflict"
- 1983 - "A huge IRA bomb exploded at Andersonstown police station, Belfast"
- 1985 - "A tidal wave struck Bangladesh, causing much damage"