Today in HistoryThis day in history:
- 1937 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
- 2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
- 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
- 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
Births:
- 1974 – Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host
- 1884 – Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1961)
- 1936 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
Deaths:
- 1984 – Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
- 2017 – Keith Chegwin, British TV presenter (b. 1957)
- 1995 – Greg Bahnsen, American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)
Holidays:
- Pampanga Day (Pampanga province, Philippines)
- International Mountain Day
- Indiana Day (United States)
Random Article of the day:
Martha Mills Noxon (born August 25, 1964) is an American television and film writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her work as a screenwriter and executive producer on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). She was also executive producer, writer, and creator of the Bravo comedy-drama series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2014–18) and the Lifetime drama series UnREAL (2015–18), and an executive producer of the CBS medical drama series Code Black (2015–17).
Noxon also wrote the science fiction action film I Am Number Four (2011), the horror thriller film Fright Night (2011), and the biographical drama film The Glass Castle (2017). She wrote and directed the drama film To the Bone (2017).
Noxon created the AMC dark comedy series Dietland and the HBO limited series Sharp Objects, both of which premiered in 2018.
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