CoM Moderators Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 1819 - Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading post 1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee 1941 - British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 2005 - Tony Blair, now the longest-serving Labour PM, marks 2,838 days as British Prime Minister 2009 - President Barack Obama announces the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, with Paul Volcker as Chairman and Austan Goolsbee as Staff Director and Chief Economist 2012 - Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 2024 - Landslide kills at least 68 with more missing, amid torrential rain, in Maco town, Davao de Oro, southern Philippines More Historical Events »
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