Today in history…
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L’Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1933 – Carol Burnett, American comedian born
1962 – NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
2008 – I married my wonderful husband 🙂
This time, 4 years ago, we were leaving our reception to head to the Madison hotel downtown… 4 years ago tomorrow morning we were heading off on our honeymoon!!
Love you Chase!