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Aunt Karen Smith

This Day In History

1520

After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

1582

In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.

1660

At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

1811

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

1814

The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.

1895

The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

1909

Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

1919

Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

1964

NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

Famous Birthdays

1489

Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)

1628

John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)

1700

Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (d. 1764)

1757

William Blake, British poet (d. 1827)

1805

John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)

1810

William Froude, British naval architect (d. 1879)

1866

Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)

1895

José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)

1931

Ed Young, children's author and illustrator

1943

Randy Newman, American composer

1944

Rita Mae Brown, American writer

1950

Ed Harris, American actor
1978
Freddie Mitchell, American football player
1987
Karen Gillan, Scottish actress