World Events Today
- The Electoral College, unanimously elected George Washington as the first President of the United States today in 1789
- The Yalta conference, attended by the American President Franklin D Roosevelt, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, started today in 1945
- The Nasdaq Stock Exchange was founded today in 1971
Entertainment Events Today
- The American epic biographical war movie Patton, was released in New York City today in 1970, it won 7 Academy Awards
- The shaggy, scruffy, overweight, red-bearded comic strip character, Hägar the Horrible, first appeared today in 1973
- Facebook was launched today in 2004
Family Events Today
- The American singer Karen Carpenter, part of the Carpenters duo, whose hits included Top of the World and Yesterday Once More, died today in 1983 aged 32
- The American Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, was born today in 1902 in Detroit
- Florence Green of the Royal Air Force, the last known surviving veteran of World War 1, died today in 2012 aged 110
Main Event Today
- The luxury British car maker Rolls-Royce, declared itself bankrupt today in 1971
National Day Today
- Today, it’s National Homemade Soup Day