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1978: Jonestown massacre.Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple religious community that he formed in the 1950s, and some 900 of his followers died this day in 1978 in Guyana in a massive act of murder-suicide known as the Jonestown massacre.More events on this day1941:John Christian Watson, the first Labour prime minister of Australia, died in Sydney. |
1905:Prince Charles (Carl) of Denmark was elected king of Norway as Haakon VII. |
1903:Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, representing Panama, met with U.S. Secretary of State John Hay to negotiate the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which gave the United States a strip 10 miles (16 km) wide across the Isthmus of Panama for construction of the Panama Canal. |
1882:Famed operatic soprano Amelita Galli-Curci was born in Milan. |
1814:Brazilian sculptor and architect Aleijadinho, known for his beautiful Rococo statues and his churches, died in Mariana. |
1477:William Caxton, a pioneering English printer, published Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, the first dated book printed in England. |
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