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Horoscope
Zodiac signs are based on the position of the sun at the time of your birth. We are currenly in Cancer
21st June 2025 - 22nd July 2025.
21st June 2025 - 22nd July 2025.
So if your a Cancer, here is your horoscope for today:
Confusion over money matters might arise, Cancer. You may need to check your records to shed light on past transactions. Don't worry. All should be well once you ascertain the facts. You might have some intense dreams tonight. Write them down. You will want to remember them later, because they might reveal a lot about your current situation. They may also inspire future projects.
On this day in...
See what happened on this day in history. Click on a year to learn more.
2018
2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.
2016
2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
2014
2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
2012
2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
2009
2009 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
2009
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
2006
2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
2003
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2002
2002 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.
2002
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
1998
1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
1996
1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1983
1983 – Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan.
1983
1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
1979
1979 – U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
1975
1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
1974
1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1971
1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
1966
1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1955
1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1954
1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.
1946
1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1941
1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
1927
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
1922
1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
1920
1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
1918
1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1916
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1910
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1888
1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
1870
1870 – Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
1870
1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1862
1862 – American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself.
1849
1849 – The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice
1838
1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1834
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1823
1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
1815
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1806
1806 – Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1799
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1789
1789 – French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
1741
1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1738
1738 – Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
1640
1640 – The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
1482
1482 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
1410
1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1381
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1240
1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1207
1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
1149
1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1099
1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
756
756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
70 �
70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
484
484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome