Some interesting historical events that happened today include:
1830 - the Duke of Wellington opened George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway. William Huskisson also became the first passenger to be killed by a railway train while attending the opening at Parkside station in England
1835 - the HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board reached the Galápagos Islands
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while sorting through petri dishes containing the bacteria Staphylococcus
1957 - the tv series Bachelor Father premiered starring John Forsythe
1965 - Lost In Space premiered
1971 - 1st broadcast of Columbo starring Peter Falk premiered on NBC
1983 - the first Costco store opened in Seattle, WA
1997 - Google.com was registered as a domain name
2019 - Norman Lear became the oldest person to win an Emmy Award at 97
Some interesting birthdays include:
Marco Polo (1254)
William Howard Taft (1857) - 27th president of the US
Ettore Bugatti (1881) - designer and manufacturer of the Bugatti automobiles
Agatha Christie (1890)
Fay Wray (1907)
Oliver Stone (1946)
Tommy Lee Jones (1946)
Lisa Vanderpump (1960)
Prince Harry (1984)