On This Day…

1095 – Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade 1295 – English King Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives.
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus’s orders.
1807 – Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops.
1895 – Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel’s will establishes the Nobel Prize.
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970).
1983 – The revised Code of Canon Law, signed by Pope John Paul II in January, took effect.
2012 – The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece.

Music: 1967 – The Beatles release their album “Magical Mystery Tour”.

Film: 1920 – “The Mask of Zorro” directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York – 1st American superhero film.

Via Britannica / On This Day

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