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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 Capricorn
22nd December 2024 - 19th January 2025.
22nd December 2024 - 19th January 2025.
So if your a Capricorn, here is your horoscope for today:
Be the star of your own movie and proud of the role you play, Capricorn. You might find yourself taking on many different characters, depending on your mood of the hour. There's a special gleam in your eye that you should share openly with others. Don't feel rushed to get anywhere. You've already arrived. Enjoy yourself in the company of those you love.
On this day in...
See what happened on this day in history. Click on a year to learn more.
2023
2023 – A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.
2019
2019 – An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.
2018
2018 – A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.
2012
2012 – More than 115,000 websites engage in an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US.[citation needed] The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to free speech and many of them temporarily shut down in protest.
2008
2008 – The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2007
2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2005
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2003
2003 – A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2002
2002 – The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
1993
1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
1990
1990 – Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1988
1988 – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.
1986
1986 – An Aerovías Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes on approach to Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores, Petén, Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board.
1983
1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1981
1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1978
1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1977
1977 – SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1977
1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.
1977
1977 – Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1976
1976 – Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
1974
1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1972
1972 – Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.
1969
1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
1967
1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1960
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
1958
1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1945
1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
1943
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1941
1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1932
1932 – Alt Llobregat insurrection breaks out in Central Catalonia, Spain.
1919
1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1915
1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1913
1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1911
1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1896
1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1886
1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1871
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
1866
1866 – Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia.
1806
1806 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.
1788
1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
1778
1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
1701
1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King in Prussia in Königsberg.
1670
1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1586
1586 – The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami.
1562
1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1486
1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
1126
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
532
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
474
474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.