We are on day 327 of 2023. The year has 38 days remaining.
Highlights of today
1852: An abrupt drop of thirty feet (9 meters) occurs in Lake Merced, California, just after midnight, most likely due to intense rains.
1971: In an effort to reduce the highest unemployment rate in thirty-two years, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber announces increased public works spending.
OTHER OCCUPIRON
1584: Jesuits are banished by the English Parliament.
John Milton publishes his pamphlet Areopagitica in 1644, criticizing censorship.
1869: The clipper Cutty Sark, the last one ever constructed and the only one still in existence, is launched in Dumbarton, Scotland.
In the year 1890, King William III of the Netherlands passed away without leaving a male successor, thus his daughter Princess Wilhelmina was granted the right to inherit.
At the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques annual general meeting in 1892, Pierre de Coubertin unveils his concept for the modern Olympic Games.
The portable pencil sharpener is invented in 1897 by John Lee Love, an American inventor.
In order to produce airplanes, the Wright brothers create a multimillion dollar company in 1909.
The Irish Citizens Army is founded in 1913 by Jim Larkin and James Connolly to defend striking workers.
1921: The Willis Campell Act, sometimes known as the "anti-beer Bill," is signed into law by US President Warren G. Harding, prohibiting physicians from writing prescriptions for beer or alcohol for medical reasons.
1946: The port city of Haiphong is bombarded by French naval forces, killing at least 6,000 Vietnamese people.
1988: All public gatherings are prohibited by authorities in Kosovo, an autonomous province of Serbia, and organized protest organizations are not allowed to reach Pristina, the provincial capital.
1989: A minimum of 300,000 individuals swarm Wenceslas Square in Prague, demanding democratic changes in Czechoslovakia.
1990: Oxford, England sees the death of British children's book author Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach, 1961; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1964).
1998: In response to specialists' findings suggesting a potential connection between mad cow disease and a deadly human illness, the European Union relaxes a global export restriction on British beef.
1999: A law granting women the ability to vote and run for office is rejected by the Kuwaiti Parliament.
2004: Walmart Stores in China released a statement stating that, in compliance with Chinese law, it will honor requests from workers to organize a union. Prior to this, Walmart has consistently opposed unionization across all of its retail locations.
2006: Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who turned Kremlin critic, was poisoned in London using a rare radioactive material. Litvinenko termed Russian President Vladimir Putin "barbaric and ruthless" and claimed personal responsibility for the poisoning.
2010: In a radical departure from one of the most deep and divisive Roman Catholic beliefs, the Vatican said that condom usage is the least of two evils when it comes to halting the spread of AIDS, even if it means preventing conception.
2011: The US and its Gulf allies are pleased that Ali Abdullah Saleh, the leader of Yemen, has decided to resign following months of protests against his 33-year tenure.
2014: US President Obama's use of executive authority to ram through immigration reform is denounced by Republicans.
2015 saw the Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh outlaw the Islamic custom of mutilating young girls' genitalia, or "khatna".
2018: According to the US government climate study, sea level rise and heat-related mortality would cost US$118 billion and US$141 billion, respectively, and will cause a ten percent decline in the US GDP by 2100. Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana cancel their Shanghai fashion show and issue an apology for a culturally inappropriate film and online posts that denigrate Chinese culture.
2019: Following the death of Iman, a 25-year-old Sumatran rhino in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, from cancer, the species is formally declared extinct in Malaysia.
2021: A manuscript documenting the early workings of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, "one of the most important scientific documents of the 20th century", sells at auction for US$13 million. In order to test equipment aimed at averting any future impact on Earth by dangerous asteroids, NASA launches the DART Mission by purposefully crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid.
2022: Russia intensifies its airstrike campaign against Ukraine, causing massive power outages throughout the nation and 80% of Moldova, or Kyiv, to be without water or electricity.
DAYS OF THE BIRTHDAYS
The following people have made significant contributions to history: Billy the Kid (William Henry McCarty, Jr.), an American frontier outlaw (1859–1881); Henry Moseley, a British physicist (1887–1915); Paul Celan, a Romanian poet (1920–1970); Vo Van Kiet, a former Vietnamese prime minister (1922–2008); Krzysztof Penderecki, a Polish composer (1933–2020); Marcia Griffiths, the renowned "Queen of Reggae" (1949–); Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela (1962–); Oded Fehr, an Israeli actor (1970– ).
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