On This Day in History | | | | 1537 First printing in England of the complete English-language Bible, the "Matthew's Bible," with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale (an update of the earlier "Coverdale Bible") [exact month/day unclear] | 1582 Last Julian calendar day in Spain, Portugal, and the Papal States. To sync to the Gregorian calendar 10 days are skipped, and the next date is Oct 15. |  | Poster advertising the Orient Express schedule |
| 1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul | 1900 In a final confrontation, around 4,000 Ashantis are defeated by the British in the Gold Coast (Ghana) | 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite, into an elliptical low Earth orbit | 1993 Troops and tanks under President Boris Yeltsin shell and occupy the Russian White House in Moscow, the seat of government of the Russian Federation | 2023 Kevin McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives to be removed from office after fellow Republican hardliners, led by Matt Gaetz, vote for his ouster | | | | | | Also Tony La Russa (80) and Alicia Silverstone (48). | | | | | Also Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and the horse Secretariat. | | | | | The calendar invented by Julius Caesar was to endure for 1,600 years, but it was finally discarded when Pope Gregory XIII came up with a more accurate version. | |
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