Important Events

1398 Tamerlane captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud’s armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at the Sultans armored elephants
1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero – forms Inquisition
1788 Russian army of Grigory Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1903 The Wright brothers make the 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England

Today In Film & TV

1989 “The Simpsons” created by Matt Groening, premieres on Fox TV as a full animated series with the episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”

Today In Music

1865 Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished Symphony” premieres in Vienna with Johann von Herbeck conducting

Today In Sports

1927 Australian cricketing prodigy Don Bradman scores 118 in his 1st-class debut for NSW against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval