63 BC – Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations.
1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered Haiti
1717 – Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop “Margaret” and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock, prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock would later provide the first recorded of Blackbeard’s appearance, with specific reference to his “very black beard”, providing the source for his name
1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
2002 – “The Two Towers” 2nd of the Lord of the Rings film premieres in New York
By: Archa Dave
