On this day in history...

Let’s check in and see what happened on this day in history.

 

1400: Death of Geoffrey Chaucer.

1415: Battle of Agincourt – Henry V’s forces defeat French army

1621: Governor Bradford bans sports on Christmas day in the Plymouth Colony. Good thing the NBA wasn’t around.

1760: George III becomes king in England. Hilarity ensues.

1764: John Adams marries Abigail Smith.

1780: John Hancock becomes the first governor of Massachusetts. So there.

1825: Birth of Johann Strauss Jr.

1838: Birth of French composer Georges Bizet.

1854: The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.

1875: The first performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1^st Piano Concerto.

1881: Birth of Pablo Picasso.

1888: Birth of Richard Byrd, polar explorer.

1902: Birth of Henry Steele Commager, American historian (Civil War).

1906: Georges Clemenceau becomes Prime Minister of France.

1911: London’s last horse-drawn omnibus takes its last run.

1912: Birth of Minnie Pearl.

1919: Birth of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran.

1921: Death of Bat Masterson.

1928: Birth of Jeanne Cooper (The Young and the Restless) and Marion Ross (Happy Days).

1932: Mussolini says he’ll be dictator for 30 years. He only made it for another 11.

1955: Tappan sells its 1^st microwave oven.

1962: John Steinbeck wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1964: The Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time.

1978: John Carpenter’s “Halloween” is released.

1980: Death of Virgil Fox, premier organist.

1986: Death of Forrest Tucker (F Troop).

1987: Minnesota Twins win their first World Series championship.

1992: Death of Roger Miller (King of the Road).

1993: Death of Vincent Price.

2001: Windows XP becomes available.

2015: Lewis Hamilton wins the US F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. Yesterday he lost to Max Verstappen.