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Today: Epiphany.Celebrated annually this day, Epiphany is a major feast that commemorates, for Western Christians, the coming of the Magi and, for Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jesus' birth, baptism by John, and first miracle.More events on this day1950:Great Britain announced its recognition of the People's Republic of China. |
1941:U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his Four Freedoms in his State of the Union message to Congress. |
1878:American poet, historian, and folklorist Carl Sandburg, whose Abraham Lincoln: The War Years won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940, was born. |
1838:German composer Max Bruch was born in Cologne, Prussia. |
1811:American Civil War statesman Charles Sumner was born in Boston. |
1759:George Washington married Martha Dandridge in Virginia. |
1540:Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. |
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