Today in History
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| This Day in History |
| 321 |
Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. |
| 1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the “telephone“. |
| 1900 |
The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. |
| 1965 |
Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. |
| 1994 |
Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. |
| 2009 |
The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched. |
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