Today:
69 – Otho seized power in Rome after defeating Emperor Galba in a coup, becoming Roman Emperor.
1535 – King Henry VIII of England declared himself Supreme Head of the Church of England.
1559 – Elizabeth I of England was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
1582 – Russia ceded Livonia and Estonia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through the Truce of Yam-Zapolsky.
1759 – The British Museum in London opened to the public for the first time.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declared its independence.
1870 – A political cartoon by Thomas Nast introduced the donkey as a symbol for the United States Democratic Party in Harper’s Weekly.
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, originally named the Pemberton Medicine Company, was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1919 – The Great Molasses Flood occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, when a large storage tank burst, releasing 2.3 million gallons of molasses.
2001 – Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
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