Today in History

Event:	1912: First parachute jump from an airplane
Although people had been parachuting from hot air balloons since the nineteenth centu...

Event:	1824: Birthdate of Gustav Kirchhoff, physicis...
Russian-born physicist Gustav Kirchhoff made numerous mathematical contributions in t...

Event:	1930: Gandhi begins salt march to Dandi
After India's Declaration of Independence in 1930 Mohandas Gandhi worked to free his ...

Event:	1881: Kemal Atatürk, first president of Turke...
The founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was more than just a pr...

Event:	604: Death of Pope Gregory I
The man who would become Pope Gregory the Great was to born to wealth and privilege a...