The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place today in 1881.


In 1989 Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson resigned in a rift with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, over her adviser Alan Waters. Lawson was replaced by (future Premier) John Major.


In 1595, Queen Elizabeth I approved the conversion of England's trained bands of Archers into musketeers!


A woman named Lori Rae Matthews was crushed to death in 1991, when a 485-pound sculpture of an umbrella fell on her in an open-air gallery in Des Moines, Iowa.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind