Content by F T.Bear
Good morning! Rise and shine!
Today In History is a place for you early risers to exercise your brains as you wait for the day to begin. Please, by all means, bring your own bits of history to the comments section and add your memories of what YOU did on this day however many years ago.
The beauty of an early morning historical post is that the date can mean the event happened today “our time” or today “other side of the world” time.
From the life and death of Plato through to the latest most recent history as it happens, we intend on bringing you stimulating and educational historical knowledge.
1st June1980 CNN (Cable News Network, not Clinton News Network) launches the worlds first 24-hour television news network.4000 BC The approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Drerivka, Ukraine.1495 The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller.1796 The last British troops withdraw from the US. War of Independence.1960 New Zealand’s first official television broadcast. Transmission began at 7.30pm and lasted just 3 hours.
