Today in History

Today in History:

• 374: Ninth recorded passage of Halley's Comet
  
• 1930: Nylon is invented by the Du Pont labs primarily from the research of American chemist Wallace Hume Carothers.


• 1935: Sonny Bono Born


• 1940: Graffiti on Munich Building by Student Group 'White Rose' says: "Out with Hitler! Long Live Freedom!' (The groups leaders were caught and executed a few days later.)


• 1959: John MacEnroe born, Fidel Castro claims dictatorial power of Cuba following his overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.


• 1970: Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown.
  
• 1972: Power outages in Britain caused by Miners Strike.


• 1986: Soviet cruise ship 'MV Mikhail Lermontov' strikes rocks and sinks in Marlborough Sounds.


• 1986: Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes Sumatra in Indonesia, 200 killed.

Nothing else of any interest to anyone happened on this day. End of story.