1811 British East India Company force led by Baron Minto conquers Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies. Stamford Raffles is appointed lieutenant-governor. Great Fire of Moscow 1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after five days, destroys 75% of the city and kills 12,000 people Great Fire of Moscow 1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall Street and the start of the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression 1914 Irish Home Rule Bill receives Royal Assent 1931 Mukden Incident: To create a pretext for the invasion of Chinese Manchuria, Japanese forces detonate a small quantity of dynamite near a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway 1947 Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July 1976 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong 's funeral takes place in Beijing, China 1951 "A Streetcar Named Desire," a film directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams ' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh , premieres at the Warner Theatre, NYC 1809 The Royal Opera House opens in London 1965 Mickey Mantle Day takes place at Yankee Stadium to honor Mickey Mantle's 2,000th game US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. On This Day in 1793 Trajan 53 AD - 117 Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784 John Diefenbaker 1895 - 1979 John Diefenbaker Greta Garbo 1905 - 1990 Ryne Sandberg 1959 - 2025 Scotty Bowman 93rd Birthday Peter Šťastný 70th Birthday Jada Pinkett Smith 55th Birthday Jada Pinkett Smith Lance Armstrong 55th Birthday Lance Armstrong

Ronaldo 50th Birthday Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young co-found a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" in New York City, renamed in 1853 as "Tiffany & Co." On This Day in 1837 1907 Author Arthur Conan Doyle (48) weds Jean Elizabeth Leckie 1920 Tennis player champion Molla Mallory (36) weds stock broker Franklin Mallory 1922 Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London 1969 Actor Rod Taylor (39) divorces model Mary Hilem after 5 years of marriage 2023 American actress Bijou Phillips (43) files for divorce from American "That '70s Show" actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson (47) after 11 years of marriage 2023 American pop singer Ariana Grande (30) files for divorce from American realtor Dalton Gomez (27) after two years of marriage [1] Domitian 51 - 96 Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 - 1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi Leonhard Euler 1707 - 1783 Dag Hammarskjöld 1905 - 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld Jimi Hendrix 1942 - 1970 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933 - 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg "Artificial sunshine" came to a Northern England holiday resort in 1879, dazzling the visitors and showing the world the possibilities of outside electricity. September 18, 1879 Abraham Lincoln Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederick Douglass George Washington Martin Luther King Jr. Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.