Today in History

1870 - Rome becomes the capital of Italy.

1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him partially paralysed.

1941 - German army launches all-out drive against Moscow in Second World War.

1946 - Mensa International, the high IQ society, is founded.

1961 - The Federal Republic of Cameroon is founded.

1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.

1985 - American actor Rock Hudson dies from Aids.

1996 - Yugoslavia broadly welcomes the UN’s decision to end sanctions imposed in 1992.

2006 - A gunman storms an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, killing five girls before committing suicide.

2015 - At least 18 people are killed in a double bomb attack in Abuja, Nigeria.

2017 - Catalans cast votes in an independence referendum.