Today in HistoryThis day in history:
- 1918 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea.
- 1997 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
- 1954 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War.
- 19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.
Births:
- 1983 – Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Brown Ideye, Nigerian footballer
- 1885 – Walter Anderson, Belarusian-German ethnologist and academic (d. 1962)
Deaths:
- 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French author and poet (b. 1613)
- 1974 – Joseph Wulf, German-Polish historian (b. 1912)
- 1976 – Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)
Holidays:
- World Porridge Day
- Finnish Literature Day (Finland)
- Double Ten Day (The National Day of Republic of China), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912
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