Some notable facts about this date, for more, visit http://www.onthisday.com
Facts
1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba
1556 Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu
1605 Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.
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1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war
1956 Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis
1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"
Deaths
1370 Kazimierz III, the Great, King of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1879 James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (speed of light), dies of abdominal cancer at 48
1942 George M Cohan, father of musical comedy, dies of cancer at 64
1972 Reginald Owen, British actor (Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes), dies at 85
1991 Robert Maxwell, British billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
1992 Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies
2012 Stalking Cat [Dennis Avner], American body modifier, dies at 54
Born on this day
1960 Tilda Swinton, British actress (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Chronicles of Narnia), born in London, England
James Clerk Maxwell
Arpad E Elo
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