Did you know it was on this day in 1829 the Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded? Or that in 1885 the first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England?
And on this day in 1949 The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China, in 1954 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed, in 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts and in 1966 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
It was also on this day in 2001 the Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication and in 2008, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
Some birthdays to remember or commemorate on this day are Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (106 BC-48 BC), Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (1546-1616), Caravaggio, Italian artist (1571-1610), László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen (1899-1985), Stanley Kramer, American film director (1913-2001), Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (1931), Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician (1935), Sebastian Coe, British athlete (1956) and Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist (1976).
If you need a reason to raise a glass of bubbly on this day, please consider commemorating Tony Curtis, American Actor (1925) who passed away on this day in 2010, or Inventor’s Day (Argentina) as an excuse.
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