The quintessential perfume for bold and bright nights, and easily the world's most famous, is released in Paris no this day.
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“The best revenge is massive success.” | Frank Sinatra
South Africa has three capital cities: Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial).
1760 Earl Ferrers executed at Tyburn for murder Laurence Shirley, the 4th Earl Ferrers, is hanged at Tyburn, London’s main execution site, for murdering his steward, highlighting that the law applied to rich and poor alike.
1925 Teacher arrested for teaching evolution School teacher John T. Scopes is arrested in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1941 Chanel No. 5 released The first modern perfume, Chanel No. 5, is launched by fashion designer Coco Chanel.
1942 Allied forces capture Diego Suarez A combined British military and naval force, including many South Africans, lands on Madagascar and captures Diego Suarez from Vichy French forces.
1945 Dönitz orders U-boats to surrender Admiral Karl Dönitz, Germany’s leader after Hitler’s death, orders all U-boats to return to base.
1961 First American in space Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Freedom 7.
1980 SAS ends Iranian embassy siege Britain’s SAS commandos storm the Iranian embassy in London on live television, killing five gunmen and capturing one, ending a six-day siege.
1981 Bobby Sands dies on hunger strike After 66 days, Provisional IRA member and MP Bobby Sands dies in Maze Prison; nine more hunger strikers die in the following months.
2012 Japan shuts down nuclear reactors Japan shuts down all 54 commercial nuclear reactors following the Fukushima disaster, amid collapsing public confidence.
2018 First death from vaping explosion An electronic cigarette explodes, killing a man in St Petersburg, Florida.
2021 Earliest African burial discovered Evidence is published of Africa’s earliest known burial, a three-year-old boy laid to rest 78,000 years ago in Kenya.
2025 Popemobile to become mobile clinic The Vatican announces the Popemobile will be converted into a mobile health clinic for wounded children in Gaza, Palestine.
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