On This Day…

1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist and editor of  “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, dies at 78.

1870 – Italian troops occupied Rome, leading to the eventual incorporation of Rome into the Kingdom of Italy and the limiting of papal governing authority to the Vatican itself and a small district around it.

1932 – Gandhi beings hunger strike against the treatment of untouchables.

1946 – Churchill argues for a ‘United States of Europe’.

1948 – George R.R. Martin, American fantasy and sci-fi author, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey.

1973 – Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the much-publicized “Battle of the Sexes”.

2018 EU leaders, including Donald Tusk and Emmanuel Macron, criticize Theresa May’s Brexit plan at a summit in Salzburg, Austria.

Via Britannica / On This Day