(68 CE) Emperor Nero commits suicide Rome’s Julio-Claudian dynasty comes to an abrupt end as Emperor Nero, 30, commits suicide. After noblemen revolt at Nero’s tax policies, and he mistakenly believes the Roman Senate is sending troops to kill him, he takes his own life with the assistance of his personal secretary.Nero was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68 AD, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and like him, became emperor with the consent of the praetorian guard. Nero’s mother, Agrippina the Younger, was implicated in Claudius’ death and Nero’s nomination as emperor. She dominated Nero’s early life and decisions until he cast her off; five years into his reign, he had her murdered.
Born: 37 AD · Anzio, Italy Died: 68 AD · Rome, Italy Spouse: Sporus (m. 67 AD – 68 AD) · Statilia Messalina (m. 66 AD – 68 AD) · Poppaea Sabina (m. 62 AD – 66 AD) · Claudia Octavia (m. 53 AD – 62 AD) Siblings: Domitia Lepida the Younger (Sister) Children: Claudia Augusta (Daughter) Parents: Agrippina the Younger (Mother) · Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (Father)
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49 AD: In 49 AD, Claudius was married for a fourth time, to Nero’s mother Agrippina, despite her being his niece.
53 AD: Nero married Claudia Octavia in 53; their marriage lasted 9 years till January 01, 0001.
62 AD: Nero married Poppaea Sabina in 62; their marriage lasted 4 years till 66.
65 AD: She was already married when she became Nero’s mistress in 65 AD, with Statilia’s husband being driven to suicide in 66, so Nero could marry Statilia.
66 AD: Nero married Statilia Messalina in 66.
67 AD: Nero married Sporus in 67.
wiki/Nero(1946) An astonishingly long reign beginsAfter King Mahidol dies of gunshot wounds, his brother Bhumibol Adulyadej is the King of Siam, which will be renamed Thailand three years later. Bhumibol, a Massachusetts native, will reign for more than 60 years and amass great wealth, putting him on the list of world’s richest royals.Bhumibol Adulyadej, conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great in 1987, was the ninth monarch of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty as Rama IX. Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he was, at the time of his death, the world’s longest-serving head of state and the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history, serving for 70 years, 126 days. During his reign, he was served by a total of 30 prime ministers beginning with Pridi Banomyong and ending with Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Lived: Dec 05, 1927 – Oct 13, 2016 (age 88) Height: 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) Spouse: Sirikit (m. 1950 – 2016) Children: Vajiralongkorn (Son) · Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Phannavadi (Daughter) · Sirindhorn (Daughter) · Chulabhorn (Daughter) Education: University of Lausanne · Mater Dei School · École nouvelle de la Suisse romande Previous office: King of Thailand (1946 – 2016)
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1946: Bhumibol ascended the throne following the death by gunshot wound of his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, on 9 June 1946, under circumstances that remain unclear.
1950: Bhumibol Adulyadej married Sirikit on April 28, 1950.
1950: After presiding over the long-delayed, ceremonial cremation of his brother Ananda Mahidol, Bhumibol was crowned King of Thailand on 5 May 1950 in the Baisal Daksin Throne Hall in the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
2006: Finally in February 2006 the Audit Commission reinstated Jaruvan when it became clear from a memo from the Office of the King’s Principal Private Secretary that King Bhumibol supported her appointment.
2009: On 20 April 2009, Thaksin claimed in an interview with the Financial Times that Bhumibol had been briefed by Privy Councillors Prem Tinsulanonda and Surayud Chulanont about their plans to stage the 2006 coup.
2016: After 2006, Bhumibol suffered declining health and spent extended periods at Siriraj Hospital, where he died on 13 October 2016.
wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej(1954) Has the red-scare ringleader ‘no sense of decency’? Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy’s relentless vendetta against supposed communist infiltration in the government and show biz enters a new stage of absurdity at hearings targeting the US Army. McCarthy’s groundless insinuations incite Joseph Welch, an Army lawyer, to utter his famous reproach.Joseph Nye Welch was the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army–McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he famously asked McCarthy “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism.
Lived: Oct 22, 1890 – Oct 06, 1960 (age 69) Spouse: Agnes Rodgers Brown (m. 1957 – 1960) · Judith Lyndon (m. 1917 – 1956) Education: Harvard Law School · Grinnell College Parents: William Welch (Father) · Martha Thyer (Mother) Children: Joe Welch (Son) · Lyndon Welch (Son) Nominations: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (1960) · BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (1960)
wiki/Joseph_N._Welch(1973) ‘Big Red’ wins the first Triple Crown in 25 yearsA chestnut colt runs the Belmont Stakes in record time and this victory, together with previous wins at the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, give Secretariat the first US Triple Crown in a quarter century. ESPN will later rank the thoroughbred the 35th best athlete of the 20th-century.Secretariat was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. His record-breaking win in the Belmont Stakes, where he left the field 31 lengths behind him, is widely regarded as one of the greatest races of all time. During his racing career, he won five Eclipse Awards, including Horse of the Year honors at ages two and three. He was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1974. In the List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Secretariat is second only to Man o’ War, who also was a large chestnut colt given the nickname “Big Red”.
Lived: Mar 30, 1970 · Oct 04, 1989 Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) Weight: 1,199 pound (544 kg) Parents: Bold Ruler · Somethingroyal Competition won: 1973 Belmont Stakes Children: Risen Star · Terlingua · Weekend Surprise · Lady’s Secret
(1642) French missionaries found MontrealHired to build a Catholic mission near the St. Lawrence River, 30-year-old Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve and his group of settlers found Ville-Marie de Montreal. The future city of Montreal faces an uncertain future at first, and the population will dwindle to 50 by a decade later.
The history of Montreal, located in Quebec, Canada, spans some 8,000 years. At the time of European contact, the area was inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a discrete and distinct group of Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people. They spoke Laurentian. Jacques Cartier became the first European to reach the area now known as Montreal in 1535 when he entered the village of Hochelaga on the Island of Montreal while in search of a passage to Asia during the Age of Exploration. Seventy years later, Samuel de Champlain unsuccessfully tried to create a fur trading post but the Mohawk of the Iroquois defended what they had been using as their hunting grounds.
A mission named Ville Marie was built in 1642 as part of a project to create a French colonial empire. Ville Marie became a centre for the fur trade and French expansion into New France until 1760, when it was surrendered to the British army, following the French defeat of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. British immigration expanded the city. The city’s golden era of fur trading began with the advent of the locally owned North West Company.
Montreal was incorporated as a city in 1832. The city’s growth was spurred by the opening of the Lachine Canal and Montreal was the capital of the United Province of Canada from 1844 to 1849. Growth continued and by 1860 Montreal was the largest city in British North America and the undisputed economic and cultural centre of Canada. Annexation of neighbouring towns between 1883 and 1918 changed Montreal back to a mostly Francophone city. The Great Depression in Canada brought unemployment to the city, but this waned in the mid-1930s, and skyscrapers began to be built.
World War II brought protests against conscription and caused the Conscription Crisis of 1944. Montreal’s population surpassed one million in the early 1950s. A new metro system was added, Montreal’s harbour was expanded and the St. Lawrence Seaway was opened during this time. More skyscrapers were built along with museums. International status was cemented by Expo 67 and the 1976 Summer Olympics. A major league baseball team, the Expos, played in Montreal from 1969 to 2004 when the team relocated to Washington, DC. Historically business and finance in Montreal was under the control of Anglophones. With the rise of Quebec nationalism in the 1970s, many institutions relocated their headquarters to Toronto.
wiki/History_of_Montreal(1875) First Kentucky Derby heldWith African-American jockey Oliver Lewis on board, Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby at a new track founded by the grandson of explorer William Clark. Eight years later, the venue will become known as Churchill Downs.The Kentucky Derby is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds and fillies 121 pounds.
2017 winner: Always Dreaming First occurred: 1875
wiki/Kentucky_Derby(1902) 2,000-year-old computer discoveredA Greek archaeologist examining finds from the haul of the Antikythera shipwreck notices a gear wheel embedded in rock. Decades later, examinations by X-ray and gamma ray will reveal the bronze gear clockwork Antikythera mechanism to be a complex ancient analog computer.
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek analogue computer and orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes. It could also track the four-year cycle of athletic games which was similar, but not identical, to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games.
Found housed in a 340 millimetres (13 in) × 180 millimetres (7.1 in) × 90 millimetres (3.5 in) wooden box, the device is a complex clockwork mechanism composed of at least 30 meshing bronze gears. Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism and read the faintest inscriptions that once covered the outer casing of the machine. Detailed imaging of the mechanism suggests it dates back to 150-100 BC and had 37 gear wheels enabling it to follow the movements of the moon and the sun through the zodiac, predict eclipses and even recreate the irregular orbit of the moon. The motion, known as the first lunar anomaly, was developed by the astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and he may have been consulted in the machine’s construction, the scientists speculate. Its remains were found as one lump, later separated into three main fragments, which are now divided into eighty-two separate fragments after conservation works. Four of these fragments contain gears, while inscriptions are found on many others. The largest gear is approximately 140 millimetres (5.5 in) in diameter and originally had 224 teeth.
The artefact was recovered on May 17, 1902 from the Antikythera shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, which in antiquity was known as Aigila. Believed to have been designed and constructed by Greek scientists, the instrument has been variously dated to about 87 BC, or between 150 and 100 BC, or in 205 BC, or within a generation before the date of the shipwreck (in about 150 BC).
After the knowledge of this technology was lost at some point in antiquity, technological works approaching its complexity and workmanship did not appear again until the development of mechanical astronomical clocks in Europe in the fourteenth century.
All known fragments of the Antikythera mechanism are kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, along with a number of artistic reconstructions of how the mechanism may have looked.
wiki/Antikythera_mechanism(1954) US Supreme Court rules school segregation unconstitutionalA lawsuit against unfair segregation is heard before the Supreme Court, and the unanimous ruling finds that establishing separate public schools for black and white students is unconstitutional. ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ will be a major landmark in the growing civil rights movement.Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court’s unanimous decision stated that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the Civil Rights Movement, and a model for many future impact litigation cases. However, the decision’s fourteen pages did not spell out any sort of method for ending racial segregation in schools, and the Court’s second decision in Brown II, 349 U.S. 294 only ordered states to desegregate “with all deliberate speed”.
(1527) Rome is sacked, ending the Renaissance As many as 20,000 mutinous troops of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V enter Rome and meet a defensive force of only 5,000 militia and 500 Swiss Guard. The city is taken, the Pope’s power is greatly diminished, and some will mark it as the end of the Italian Renaissance.The Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527 was a military event carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome, then part of the Papal States. It marked a crucial imperial victory in the conflict between Charles and the League of Cognac—the alliance of France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy.
Date: May 06, 1527
wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)(1937) The zeppelin Hindenburg destroyed in fireballA transatlantic flight of the German luxury passenger airship Hindenburg ends in disaster as the vessel bursts into flames near its docking tower at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people will die in the tragedy, and it will mark the end of airship travel.The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. Of the 97 people on board, there were 35 fatalities. One worker on the ground was also killed, raising the final death toll to 36.
Fatalities: 36 Date: May 06, 1937 Universal Newsreel
wiki/Hindenburg_disaster(1954) Bannister breaks the four-minute mile England’s Roger Bannister does what some track-and-field experts considered impossible – he runs a mile in under 4 minutes. His finishing time for the historic Oxford run is 3 min 59.4 seconds, a record that will stand for just 46 days.Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CH, CBE is an English former middle-distance athlete, physician and academic, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile. In the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres and finished fourth. This strengthened his resolve to be the first 4-minute miler. He achieved this feat on 6 May 1954 at Iffley Road track in Oxford, with Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher providing the pacing. When the announcer, Norris McWhirter, declared “The time was three…”, the cheers of the crowd drowned out Bannister’s exact time, which was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. Bannister’s record lasted just 46 days. He had reached this record with minimal training, while practising as a junior doctor.
Born: Mar 23, 1929 (age 88) · London Borough of Harrow, United Kingdom Height: 6′ 2″ (1.89 m) Education: University of Oxford · Imperial College London · Merton College, Oxford · Exeter College, Oxford Nominations: BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (1954) Awards: Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year (1954)
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1947: His training was light, even compared to the standards of the day, but he showed promise in running a mile in 1947 in 4:24.6 on only three weekly half-hour training sessions.
1984: In 1984, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.
1988: In the 1988 television mini-series The Four Minute Mile, about the rivalry between Bannister, John Landy and Wes Santee to be first to break the 4 minute mile mark, Bannister was portrayed by actor Richard Huw.
1993: Bannister went on to become a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, before retiring in 1993.
2002: In a UK poll conducted by Channel 4 in 2002, the British public voted Bannister’s historic sub-4-minute mile as number 13 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments.
2014: In 2014 he appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek with Libby Purves, Kevin Warwick and Rachael Stirling.
wiki/Roger_Bannister(2004) ‘Friends’ says goodbye after 10 seasonsRoss, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Monica, and Chandler have their last cup of coffee together after a decade of comedic personal and professional struggles. The series finale draws in 52.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched TV episode of the decade.Rachel Green, Ross Geller, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing and Phoebe Buffay are all friends, living off of one another in the heart of New York City. Over the course of ten years, this average group of buddies goes through massive mayhem, family trouble, past and future romances, fights, laughs, tears and surprises as they learn what it really means to be a friend.
First episode: Sep 22, 1994 Episode duration: 22 minutes Creators: Marta Kauffman · David Crane Theme song: I’ll Be There for You Producers: Marta Kauffman · David Crane · Kevin S. Bright · Michael Curtis · Wil Calhoun · Scott Silveri · Shana Goldberg-Meehan Awards: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series · Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series · Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series · Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series · Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy series
(1616) William Shakespeare dies on his birthday According to tradition, the revered English-language playwright is born on this date in 1564, and he dies on the same date 52 years later. In between, the Stratford-upon-Avon native is credited with writing 38 plays and 154 sonnets that will outlive him by centuries.William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet, and the “Bard of Avon”. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Lived: Apr 23, 1564 – Apr 23, 1616 (age 52) Height: 6′ 4″ (1.93 m) Spouse: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582 – 1616) Children: Susanna Hall (Daughter) · Hamnet Shakespeare (Son) · Judith Quiney (Daughter) Lyricist for: Romeo and Juliet · Macbeth · A Midsummer Night’s Dream · The Taming of the Shrew · The Comedy of Errors · Titus Andronicus · Antony and Cleopatra · The Two Gentlemen of Verona · Standup Shakespeare Education: King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
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1582: At 18, he married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant.
1593: In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on erotic themes, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
1596: In 1596, the year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford, Shakespeare was living in the parish of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, north of the River Thames.
1599: In 1599, two early drafts of sonnets 138 and 144 appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim, published under Shakespeare’s name but without his permission.
1609: Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic works to be printed.
1616: Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, at the age of 52.
wiki/William_Shakespeare(1954) Hank Aaron hits his first home runAaron hits his first MLB home run, playing for the Milwaukee Braves against the St. Louis Cardinals. ‘Hammerin’ Hank’ would go on to surpass Babe Ruth and retire in 1976 with 755 home runs, setting a record that would stand until 2007.Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron, nicknamed “Hammer”, or “Hammerin’ Hank”, is a retired American Major League Baseball right fielder who is currently the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League and 2 seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League, from 1954 through 1976. Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he still holds several MLB offensive records. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973, and is one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least fifteen times. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Aaron fifth on its “100 Greatest Baseball Players” list.
Born: Feb 05, 1934 (age 83) · Mobile, AL Height: 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) Spouse: Billye Aaron (m. 1973) · Barbara Lucas (m. 1953 – 1971) Education: Central High School Children: Lary Aaron (Son) · Gary Aaron (Son) · Hank Aaron, Jr. (Son) · Dorinda Aaron (Daughter) · Gaile Aaron (Daughter) · Ceci Aaron (Daughter) Siblings: Tommie Aaron (Brother) · Alfredia Scott (Sister)
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1953: Hank Aaron married Barbara Lucas on October 06, 1953; their marriage lasted 18 years till February 01, 1971.
1954: He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and 2 seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League (AL), from 1954 through 1976.
1969: On July 31, 1969, Aaron hit his 537th home run, passing Mickey Mantle’s total; this moved Aaron into third place on the career home run list, after Willie Mays and Babe Ruth.
1971: At age 37, he hit a career-high 47 home runs during the season (along with a career-high .669 slugging percentage) and finished third in MVP voting for the sixth time.
1973: He hit home run number 713 on September 29, 1973, and with one day remaining in the season, many expected him to tie the record.
1999: In 1999, MLB created the Hank Aaron Award, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Aaron’s surpassing of Babe Ruth’s career home run mark of 714 home runs and to honor Aaron’s contributions to baseball.
wiki/Hank_Aaron(1968) Students take over Columbia University in Vietnam protest Angered at the school’s affiliation with institutions connected to the Vietnam War, students at New York’s prestigious Columbia University stage a mass protest and take control of buildings on campus. Police will later move in to clear the protesters.The Columbia University protests of 1968 were among the many student demonstrations that occurred around the world in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of that year after students discovered links between the university and the institutional apparatus supporting the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as their concern over an allegedly segregatory gymnasium to be constructed in the nearby Morningside Park. The protests resulted in the student occupation of many university buildings and the eventual violent removal of protesters by the New York City Police Department.
Start date: Mar 27, 1967 End date: Apr 30, 1968
wiki/Columbia_University_protests_of_1968(2005) Online video mania begins with elephantsAn 18-second clip titled, ‘Me at the Zoo,’ is the first video uploaded to YouTube. The clip features YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim admiring elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Though Karim’s video is a far cry from ‘Gangnam Style’ and ‘What Does the Fox Say?’ it will open the floodgates to the now ubiquitous video-sharing site.YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos, subscribe to other users, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
Website: www.youtube.com Customer service: +1 650-253-0000 Founded: Feb 14, 2005 · San Mateo, CA Headquarters: San Bruno, CA CEO: Susan Wojcicki (2014) Founders: Jawed Karim · Steve Chen · Chad Hurley
(532) Justinian I decrees the building of the Hagia SophiaByzantine emperor Justinian I orders a new basilica of grand proportions and precious materials be built in Constantinople. It will endure into the 21st century as one of the great architectural wonders of the world.Hagia Sophia was a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica, later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was later converted into an Ottoman mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have “changed the history of architecture”. It remained the world’s largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520.
Address: Sultanahmet Square, Istanbul Established: Feb 01, 1935 Height: 180 feet (55 m) (Architectural) Architects: Isidore of Miletus · Anthemius of Tralles Architectural style: Byzantine architecture Categories: Basilica · Mosque
wiki/Hagia_Sophia(1455) First book in the West to be printed by moveable typeThe Gutenberg Bible is produced using Johannes Gutenberg’s invention, the moveable type printing press. Forty-eight copies of the original pressing will survive to the 21st century, and be sought after as immensely valuable collectibles.The Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. It marked the start of the “Gutenberg Revolution” and the age of the printed book in the West. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities, the book has an iconic status. Written in Latin, the Catholic Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Vulgate, printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, in present-day Germany, in the 1450s. Since its publication, 49 copies have survived, and they are considered to be among the most valuable books in the world even though no complete copy has been sold since 1978. wiki/Gutenberg_Bible
(1836) Battle of the Alamo beginsMexican general Santa Ana leads 1,500 men in a siege against US colonel William Travis’ much smaller Texian force garrisoned behind the walls of the Alamo Mission. The 13-day siege will end in death for all the Texians and inspire calls for vengeance in what will prove a turning point in the Texas Revolution.The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, Texas, United States, killing all of the Texian defenders. Santa Anna’s cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.
Start date: Feb 23, 1836 End date: Mar 06, 1836
wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo(1954) Mass polio vaccine inoculations startPittsburgh elementary school students are the first group to receive Dr. Jonas Salk’s new polio vaccine. The disease that for centuries has paralyzed and killed millions will be almost eradicated by the end of the 20th century.Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis. There are two types: one that uses inactivated poliovirus and is given by injection, and one that uses weakened poliovirus and is given by mouth. The World Health Organization recommends all children be vaccinated against polio. The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world, and reduced the number of cases each year from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 to 74 in 2015.
Developers: Jonas Salk · Albert Sabin May prevent: Polio (poliomyelitis) Drug class: Vaccine Pregnancy risk category: C
(68 CE) Emperor Nero commits suicide 
(1946) An astonishingly long reign begins
(1954) Has the red-scare ringleader ‘no sense of decency’? 
(1973) ‘Big Red’ wins the first Triple Crown in 25 years
