Re: What can we celebrate today?
Posted: Tue Jun 30 2020 9:18am
30th June
NATIONAL METEOR WATCH DAY
SOCIAL MEDIA DAY
A selection of events from this day in history.
1665 The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people
1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 London's Tower Bridge opens
1908 A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet flattens 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in the largest impact event in recorded history
1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1940 German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands
1967 Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1980 British sixpence demonetised after being in used since 1551 and 12 years after introduction of decimal currency
NATIONAL METEOR WATCH DAY
SOCIAL MEDIA DAY
A selection of events from this day in history.
1665 The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people
1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 London's Tower Bridge opens
1908 A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet flattens 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in the largest impact event in recorded history
1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1940 German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands
1967 Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1980 British sixpence demonetised after being in used since 1551 and 12 years after introduction of decimal currency