44 Julius Caesar was assassinated. There is a discussion of Cicero in a book review elsewhere on this blog.
1778 Vancouver, History: Captain James Cook sailed into Nootka Sound and charted Vancouver Island. To confuse matters the city of Vancouver is not on the island of that name. Victoria, the provincial capital, is on the island, while Rain City Vancouver is on the mainland. Been to Vancouver many times.
1877 Melbourne, Sports: The first international cricket match in Australia was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against England. In those days the MCG was a paddock and not the temple of indulgence it is now.
1907 Helsinki, Politics: Finland legislated the vote for women, the first place in Europe to do so. The women below were all elected to parliament in that year. At the time Finland was a Grand Duchy of Russia, and the parliament was strictly advisory, but nonetheless it was a parliament and there were elections with universal suffrage. We enjoyed a few busy days in Helsinki in 2016. A biography of the Greatest Finn, Karl Mannerheim, is discussed elsewhere on this blog.
1985 Boston, Technology: Symbolics Computer Corporation registered the first ever domain name: symbols.com. There are a billion roman names now registered and an active market in trading them. Went through the computer museum in Boston about that time.
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