On This Day in History

Today in History for Sunday 30th November 2014

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Our today in history archives contain 200,000 events, birthdays, weddings, divorces and deaths.

Historical Events

Events 1 - 6 of 197
1016 - Cnut the Great (or Canute), King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund 'Ironside'.
1648 - English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I
1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1974 - Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Today's Historical Events

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 4 of 252

Gregory of Tours (538)

John McCrae (1872)

Mark Twain (1835)

Winston Churchill (1874)

Today's Famous Birthdays

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 7
1940 - "I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut
1945 - Actress Bette Davis (37) weds artist William Grant Sherry
1973 - Science fiction author Issac Asimov marries 2nd wife psychoanalyst and science fiction author Janet Jeppson
1973 - Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) weds author Janet Jeppson (47)
1996 - Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey

Today's Famous Weddings