This Day in History
Today is the 58th day of 2023. There are 307 days left in the year
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
2010: One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tears apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile and sends a tsunami racing halfway around the world. Chilean authorities say at least 214 people died.
OTHER EVENTS
1922: The US Supreme Court unanimously upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
1933: Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, catches fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, use the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.
1968: Britain’s House of Commons approves Bill to restrict immigration to Britain.
1999: Nigeria elects General Olusegun Obasanjo in the first presidential elections after 15 years of military rule, but the results are disputed.
2005: Iran and Russia ignore US objections and sign a nuclear fuel agreement that is key to bringing Tehran’s first reactor online by mid-2006.
2014: UN secretary general says that 20 years after the Rwanda genocide, the international community’s collective failure to prevent atrocities in Syria is a “shameful indictment”.
2016: Jamaican music legend Winston “Merritone” Blake dies. He was known for he work as a sound system operator, record producer, nightclub owner, promoter, and occasional recording artiste
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (1807-1882); John Steinbeck, US writer (1902-1968); Joanne Woodward, US actress (1930- ); Elizabeth Taylor, US actress (1932-2011)
— AP