Today in History
1663 - Opening of London’s Drury Lane Theatre, the oldest English theatre still in use.
1824 - Premiere in Vienna of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
1846 - Sixty people, including the paramount chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa, die in a landslide at Te Rapa.
1856 - Henry Sewell becomes the first premier of New Zealand.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1888 - Anti-Chinese hysteria in Dunedin sees a public meeting call for a ban on Chinese immigrants.
1928 - The minimum voting age for British women is lowered from 30 to 21 – the same age as men.
1939 - Germany and Italy announce a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1945 - Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending World War II in Europe.
1954 - Vietnamese forces overrun Dien Bien Phu, held by the French. A resulting ceasefire divides the country into North and South.
1975 - US President Gerald Ford declares an end to the “Vietnam era”. Viet Cong celebrate takeover of Ho Chi Minh City.
1994 - Edvard Munch’s The Scream is recovered by Norwegian police, almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo.
2009 - Gunman Jan Molenaar holes up in his Napier home after shooting three policemen and another man.
2021 - A federal grand jury indicts four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death.
Birthdays
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1840-93); Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav president (1892-1980); Eva Peron, Argentine leader (1919-52); Steve Hansen, All Blacks coach (1959-); Stacey Jones, NZ league player (1976-).
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