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Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m.
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES
British passenger liner that sank in 1912
The George Cross is awarded “to the island fortress of Malta” by King George VI.
📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
1942 award by King George VI to the people of Malta
The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES
British passenger liner that sank in 1912
George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
German-British composer (1685–1759)
The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 INDIA
1919 massacre of Indian protesters
World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced
📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY
1939–1945 global conflict
Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 AUSTRALIA
2024 stabbing attack in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia