1599 ~ Birthday of Oliver Cromwell, Military Leader & Politician.

1719 ~ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was published.

1792 ~ The French national anthem, La Marseillaise was composed.

1840 ~ Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer.

1900 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1945.

1915 ~ The ANZAC tradition began during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.

1917 ~ Birthday of Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz Singer.

1945 ~ The United Nations was organized in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.

1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson published Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.

1989 ~ James Richardson was freed from a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children.



Holidays and observances

Australia, New Zealand ~ ANZAC Day

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