Yes Gentle Reader let us gaze into the river of time and dive in and explore.
1480: Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of the pope and famous poisoner is born.

1506: Construction begins on St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

1906: A massive earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco

1930: The BBC news is replaced by classical music because there was "no news" today.

1955: Albert Einstein, Physicist, dies.

1971: Davis Tennant, Scottish actor and star of Casanova, Doctor Who and Broadchurch is born.

1988: John Demjanjuk who got the nickname "Ivan the Terrible" is found guilty of War Crimes during WW2. He was a guard at Treblinka.

2014: An avalanche on Mount Everest kills 14 people.

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