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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 Virgo
23rd August 2025 - 22nd September 2025.
So if your a Virgo, here is your horoscope for today:
A minor quarrel or separation could take place with a love partner, Virgo, probably over something that seems trivial. It's likely to get your dander up to the point where you may never want to see this person again. Go for a workout or brisk walk to clear your head, get the endorphins going, and view the situation more objectively. Then phone your friend and work it out.

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See what happened on this day in history. Click on a year to learn more.

2020
2020 – Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
2017
2017 – The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
2011
2011 – Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK.
2008
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
2004
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2001
2001 – During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.
1995
1995 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
1983
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1981
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1981
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1978
1978 – At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times.
1975
1975 – The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
1974
1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1972
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
1971
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
1968
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1966
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1963
1963 – Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1962
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1959
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1958
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1954
1954 – Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch.
1952
1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1950
1950 – Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
1948
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1948
1948 – The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.
1947
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits the Kantō region, in Japan killing around 1,000-2,000 people.
1945
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1944
1944 – The Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1944
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1942
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1940
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.
1935
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1918
1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
1916
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1915
1915 – New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
1894
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, causing the Qing army to withdraw to the Chinese border with Korea.
1873
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1862
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1835
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1830
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1821
1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
1820
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1816
1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
1813
1813 – Followers of the Eight Trigram Sect loyal to Lin Qing attack the Forbidden City in a failed attempt to oust the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
1812
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1812
1812 – The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow during the failed French invasion of Russia.
1795
1795 – Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
1794
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
1789
1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
1776
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1762
1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1556
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1530
1530 – Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644–1912.
1440
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
994
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.

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