The Song Dynasty began in 960, with the coronation of Emperor Taizu. George Washington was unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the Electoral College in 1789. Three earthquakes have struck on this date in recent decades: 1328 people were killed in 1975 in Haicheng, China; twenty-two thousand were killed in Guatemala and Honduras in 1976; and 5000 were killed in Afghanistan in 1998.
Born today: Fernand Leger (1881-1955), Nigel Bruce (1895-1953), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Rosa Parks (1913-2005), Ida Lupino (1918-1995), Alice Cooper (1948), Dara O'Briain (1972), Oscar de la Hoya (1973), Natalie Imbruglia (1975).
It is Independence Day in Sri Lanka.
