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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 Gemini
21st May 2025 - 20th June 2025.
21st May 2025 - 20th June 2025.
So if your a Gemini, here is your horoscope for today:
A reunion with a family member who has been away or out of touch could generate some powerful emotions, Gemini. Memories could come flooding back, making you both nostalgic and maybe a bit angry. Take care to curb the latter. You don't want to spoil your reunion. Take a long, objective look at the memories and try to figure out what they mean to you now. Then let them go.
On this day in...
See what happened on this day in history. Click on a year to learn more.
2022
2022 – Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule.
2021
2021 – Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
2021
2021 – A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people.
2017
2017 – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi.
2016
2016 – Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people are killed and at least 200 people injured.
2016
2016 – Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, kill at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.
2015
2015 – At least 30 people are killed as a result of floods and tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico.
2014
2014 – Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
2013
2013 – A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
2008
2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
2006
2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
2002
2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
1998
1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
1995
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1992
1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
1991
1991 – Aeroflot Flight 8556 crashes at Pulkovo Airport, killing 13.
1978
1978 – A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near the Russian town of Yegoryevsk, killing two.
1971
1971 – The Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest opens, becoming the second-tallest building in the city.
1971
1971 – Seventy-eight people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present-day Rijeka, Croatia (then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
1960
1960 – A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
1951
1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China.
1949
1949 – Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
1948
1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
1946
1946 – The start of a two-day tornado outbreak across the Central United States that spawned at least 15 significant tornadoes.
1945
1945 – World War II: Germany's Flensburg Government under Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces.
1945
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1941
1941 – World War II: German paratroopers start a series of mass executions of Greek civilians in Missiria for their participation in the ongoing Battle of Crete.
1939
1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1934
1934 – The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1934
1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1932
1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
1915
1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
1911
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1907
1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1905
1905 – Sultan Abdul Hamid II publicly announces the creation of the Ullah millet for the Aromanians of the empire, which had been established one day earlier. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is usually celebrated on May 23, although some do so on May 22 instead.
1900
1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
1873
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1863
1863 – The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
1846
1846 – Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1844
1844 – Báb: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Baháʼí Faith.
1829
1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
1793
1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1788
1788 – South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1706
1706 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
1618
1618 – The Third Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
1609
1609 – Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
1568
1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
1533
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1498
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1430
1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.