Hakuna Matata! An iconic musical is born (1997)

360.org - Wednesday, 13 November 2019 - Today in 1997 was the first day Elton John�s song �Hakuna Matata� echoed through the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City. Disney�s Lion King had its premiere on November 13, 1997. It would become one of the longest running theatre productions on Broadway maybe the most popular musical to be performed on stages around the world. Read More >>

A modern emperor in a traditional house (1990)

360.org - Tuesday, 12 November 2019 - Japan officially got a new emperor, today in 1990. Crown Prince Akihito was installed to the Chrysanthemum Throne on November 12, 1990. However, he was already practicing Japanese emperorship since January 7, 1989, the day his father and Emperor Hirohito died. Akihito is the 125th Emperor of Japan. Read More >>

155 people killed in a cable car (2000)

360.org - Monday, 11 November 2019 - It�s pure horror, just thinking about it. 155 people were killed, today in the year 2000, when a cable car burst into flames, stalled inside a mountain tunnel. The cable car was on its way to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier in Austria. It ran from the Alpine village of Kaprun through a tunnel, up the mountain to the glacier on top. The fire started in an electric heater. Read More >>

Word processing gets a huge impulse

Today is the birthday of WordPerfect�s most successful version: WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. It had a lot of �firsts� in word processing-world. For instance it included text-based Macintosh-style as well as CUA-Style. But it also had novelties like �Print Preview�. Something nobody had seen till then. Read More >>

Tear down this wall!

It seemed impossible for a long time, but today in 1989 the divided German city of Berlin opened its borders. The Berlin Wall separated the city into West and East Berlin since august 1961. Complete families were torn apart by it. Read More >>

Cake for Gordon Ramsay!

Who doesn't know Gordon Ramsay? The f**king famous British top chef was born on 8th November 1966 in Glasgow, which means that today is his birthday! Read More >>

Ingrid of Sweden; the beloved Queen of Denmark

On November 7th in the year 2000, the beloved Queen of Denmark, Ingrid of Sweden, passed away at the age of 90. Ingrid of Sweden was born on March 28th 1910 in Stockholm. Her parents were the King and Queen of Sweden; therefore she lived in the Royal Palace in Stockholm until she got married to her cousin, the future King of Denmark, Frederike IX. Read More >>

How to become president, born poor: Nixon is elected president

'The people's right to change what doesn�t work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.� A quote from America�s 37th president, Richard Nixon. He was the president that ended created the Environmental Protection Agency, but also the star player in the Watergate Scandal. Today is de day Nixon was elected in 1965. Read More >>

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2008: Change has come to America

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1512: Michelangelo�s masterpiece is exhibited for the first time

1632: Today, 486 years ago, Johannes Vermeer was baptized

2012: The day Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker became Disney heroes

2012: Today, 6 years ago, Hurricane Sandy hit New York City

1886: The history of ticker tape parades

1988: E.T. on home video

1992: A tour through history

2007: The giant multinational airliner