Today is the day of St. Zigmund, it’s Blahoslav’s holiday.
Today is International Jazz Day.
Beltain begins at sunset today.
Today is the 78th birthday of His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden.
1,713 years ago today, Emperor Galerius issues an edict of tolerance, recognizing Christianity as a tolerated religion. The persecution of Christians in the eastern part of the empire thus ends.
680 years ago today, Pope Clement VI elevates the Prague bishopric on the arc and establishes for him, next to Olomouc, a second suffragan bishopric in Litomyšl.
Today, 451 years ago, the tower of the Beauvais cathedral, the tallest in the world at the time, collapsed, the second punishment for the Beauvais’ proud attempt to surpass all other cathedrals in height. Repairs to the damaged transept and naves will consume so much money that there will not be enough left to complete the west wing, which will save the Romanesque church from demolition.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, the one with the normal distribution, was born 247 years ago today. He had a relatively fundamental impact on about ten scientific fields.
235 years ago today, George Washington became the first US President.
Jaroslav Hašek, dog thief, writer, red commissar, was born 141 years ago today.
127 years ago today, in his lecture to the Royal Institution in London, JJ Thomson announces the discovery of the electron.
112 years ago today, František Kmoch, a phenomenal brass player, dies in Kolín.
108 years ago today, daylight saving time was introduced in Austria-Hungary and Germany, allowing production to be extended by an hour. It might have made sense then…
81 years ago today, Operation Decoy is launched – off the coast of Spain, a British submarine drops the corpse of a fake officer into the water with top secret materials, which indicate that the Allies will not attack Sicily, but the Balkans and Sardinia. The Germans pretty much swallowed it…
79 years ago today, Adolf and Eva Hitler took their own lives in a Berlin bunker. They didn’t enjoy their marriage for even 40 hours…
44 years ago today, Dutch Queen Juliana of Orange-Nassau abdicated in favor of her daughter Beatrice.
31 years ago today, CERN announces that it provides the www protocol for free use, without which the use of the Internet as we know it would not exist.
11 years ago today, Dutch Queen Beatrice of Orange-Nassau abdicated the throne in favor of her son Willem Alexander.
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