Today in History

• 2003 The United States invade Iraq, assisted by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland

  The Iraq War, which was termed illegal by then UN Secretary, Kofi Annan, caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.

• 1995 Japanese terrorists release poisonous gas in the Tokyo subway

  12 people died and thousands are wounded after members of the religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo, had places containers leaking sarin on 5 different trains.

• 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry

  After the wedding in Gibraltar, the artists spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam with a Bed-In for Peace, which lasted a whole week.

• 1916 Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity

  The revolutionary theory describes the interdependency of matter on the one hand and space and time on the other. It is one of the most influential theories in Physics.

• 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  The anti-slavery story played an important role in setting the scene for the American Civil War.