- 1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
- 1994 Beatles’ 1st album in 25 years, “Live at the BBC”, is released in Britain
- 1982 “Thriller”, 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
- 1876 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) “the Mona Lisa of prehistory” [1]
- 1872 First international soccer game, Scotland draws with England (0-0) in Glasgow
- World’s longest recorded rainbow – 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei’s Yangmingshan mountain range. Today in history in 2017
- Ann Hodges is bruised by a meteor at Sylacauga, Alabama in first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human. Today in History in 1954
- 1940 “I Love Lucy” actress Lucille Ball (28) weds Cuban actor and singer Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut; divorce in 1960
- 1945 Actress Bette Davis (37) weds artist William Grant Sherry
- 1973 Sci-fi author Issac Asimov (53) weds second wife psychoanalyst and Sci-fi author Janet Jeppson (47)
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I think it is interesting.
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It always amazes me how I forget some of this stuff – nice to pick it up again.
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