41 I, Claudius became Roman emperor. We know the Robert Graves account.
1755 Moscow University was established by Elizabeth II of Russia. Not the one in Idaho. Been by it on the tourist bus.
1858 Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” was played, at wedding of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia who became Kaiser. It had only been used once before at a wedding and when Queen Victoria chose it that made it a hit.
1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco made a transcontinental telephone transmission.
1924 The International Week of Winter Sports (Winter Olympics) opened at Chamonix, France, at the foot of Mount Blanc. The Canadian ice hockey team wins a gold medal, The team included a fifteen year old figure skater, Cecil Smith, the first woman on a Canadian Olympic team. This was test of concept a Winter Olympiad and it was so successful that the Olympic Committee instituted it as a regular event from 1928.
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