On This Day in History |
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211 Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies in Eboracum (York) in England, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta. |
960 Coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of the Song, initiating three centuries of Song Dynasty dominance in southern China |
1789 First US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President. |
 | A page from the Codex Sinaiticus, displaying the Lord's Prayer. The first few letters are part of Matthew 6:4; the first new paragraph denotes Matthew 6:5. The last full sentence is Matthew 6:24; the last incomplete sentence on this page is Matthew 6:25. |
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1859 One of the oldest known copies of the Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is seen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf who takes the manuscript home with him |
1865 Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of Confederate forces. |
1969 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO. |
1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US federal grand jury for drug trafficking and racketeering. |
2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room. |
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Entertainer Liberace died on this day, going to his grave insisting he was not gay. But his death from AIDS and a later expose told a different story . . . |
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