Happened today

• 1373 - England and Portugal sign an alliance treaty that has never been broken.
• 1774 - Rhode Island is the first of the thirteen American colonies to outlaw the importation of slaves.
• 1878 - The Congress of Berlin begins.
• 1995 - President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in Polynesia.
• 2005 - Michael Jackson is declared not guilty for all the accusations concerning pedophilia.
  
  

Born Today

Died Today

Today's quote

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

~Thomas Young

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