Today in 1969, 56 years ago: Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

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Today in 1833, 192 years ago: at a high society dance in London (United Kingdom), the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville (52), tutor of London mathematician Ada Lovelace (17), introduces her to the British mathematician Charles Babbage (41). Over the next few days, Lovelace -impressed by Babbage's ideas - will visit Babbage's workshop to see his “analytical engine” (the first general-purpose mechanical computer). She will become famous for her work on this computer.

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Today in 2000, 25 years ago: the cataclysmic landslide of the ice sheet covering Antarctica, prophesied in 1997 by the American writer Richard Noone, which would be caused by planetary alignment, and which would lead to a landslide of the Earth's crust, does not occur.​

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Today in 1978, 47 years ago: The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

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Today in 1946, 79 years ago: The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.

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Today in 1867, 158 years ago: the United States buys Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million US dollars.

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Today in 1943, 82 years ago: in Germany, Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech.

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Today in 2001, 24 years ago: The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.

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Today in 1977, 47 years ago: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.

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Today in 1497, 527 years ago: Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.

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Today in 1940, 84 years ago: in Poland, a group of 728 Polish Jews from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

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Today in 1871, 153 years ago: Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.

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Today in 1949, 75 years ago: George Orwell's novel 1984 is published.

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Today in 1968, 56 years ago: in Los Angeles (California), after a speech at the Ambassador Hotel, Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. He will die the next day and the murderer will be sentenced to death, although his sentence will later be commuted to life imprisonment.

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Today in 1947, 77 years ago: George Marshall presents the Marshall Plan of aid to European countries affected by World War II.

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Today in 1888, 136 years ago: in Olavarría (province of Buenos Aires), the first parish priest of the village, the Spaniard Pedro N. Castro Rodríguez, poisoned and hammered to death his wife Rufina Padín Chiclano and his daughter Petrona María Castro (10), who were visiting him from the town of Azul.​

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Today in 1959, 65 years ago: in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), terrorists shoot at the Cuban embassy in that city. A Dominican boy named Ovidio Méndez is shot dead.

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Today in 1989, 35 years ago: China's government sends troops to expel protesters from Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

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Today in 2022, 2 years ago: Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changed the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye."

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Today in 1485, 539 years ago: Matthias Corvinus of Hungary takes the Vienna of Frederick III.

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