On This Day…

1897 George Smith becomes the first person to be arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building.

1919 Austria and the Allied powers signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain concluding World War I.

1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta.

1966 Beatles ‘’Revolver’’ album goes #1 for 6 weeks in the UK.

1991 Nirvana’s ‘’Smells like Teen Spirit’’ released as a single.

1999 The film ‘’Fight Club’’ based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, directed by David Fincher and starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, premiers at the Venice Film Festival.

2000 Andrew Lloyd’s Webber’s musical Cats closed after 7,485 performances, being the longest-running show on Broadway until it was surpassed by Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera in 2006.

2015 New human-like species – Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and team of female archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa.