1564 ~ Birthday of Christopher Marlowe, Playwright.

1819 ~ Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore.

1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.

1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete.

1903 ~ Birthday of Claudio Arrau, Pianist.

1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist.

1952 ~ Elizabeth II became Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse in a tree-top hotel in Kenya.

1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.

1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete.

2004 ~ In Russia, a Chechen suicide-attack in a Moscow metro killed 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine.


Holidays and observances

New Zealand ~ Waitangi day.

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