Today in 321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
Today in 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465). (And from this the evil know as AT&T is born.)
Today in 1965 – In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
Today in 2007 – British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
Celebrating Birthdays today are Piet Mondrian, Reinhard Heydrich, Janet Guthrie, Michael Eisner, Matthew Fisher, Francis Rocco Prestia, Anupam Kher, Wanda Sykes, Warrel Dane, Sébastien Izambard, and Dani Woodward.
Celebrating Death-iversaries today are Thomas Aquinas, Alice B. Toklas, Paul Rotha, Paul-Émile Victor, Sidney Gottlieb, Stanley Kubrick, and Paul Winfield.
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