On this day…

1606 Possible first performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I

1914 Lord Kitchener says “Your country needs you” poster spreads over UK

1935 60% of voters agrees to Nazism in Danzig (Gdańsk)

1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan

1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US

1964 Turkey begins air attack on Greek Cypriots

1978 Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI

1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield

1990 – Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress suspended a 29-year guerrilla campaign against white rule in a dramatic move that cleared the way for talks on ending South Africa’s apartheid system.

1998 – Car bombs exploded at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing at least 213 people in Nairobi and 11 in Dar es Salaam. More than 5,000 were wounded. Followers of Islamist militant Osama bin Laden were later convicted in New York.

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