* Prepare for glory, slags! 300 is out on DVD today. Here’s Tom Wisdom just because he’s hot and I’ve already covered Rodrigo Santoro and Michael Fassbender and Gerard Butler is over-played.
781 — The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
904 – Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1423 — Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Cravant – The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1498 — On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 — The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1703 — Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1777 — The United States Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette “be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States.”
1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1941 – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.”
1976 — Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
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