Historical Events

1667 English fleet plunders Surinamese plantations

1776 Battle of Pelham: Colonel John Glover and the Marblehead Regiment meet British forces in the Bronx

Howards End

1910 E. M. Forster publishes his novel "Howards End"

1st Earl Beatty

1919 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby

1922 British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded, later known as British Broadcasting Corporation

Allied Generals Confer

1944 Allied Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower , Omar Bradley , and Bernard Montgomery confer in Brussels, Belgium

1960 In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge and London Evening Star merges with Evening News

Nobel Prize in Medicine

1962 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK),

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