Sir Michael Philip Jagger is 76 today.
On this day in 1943, musician, actor, film producer and Rolling Stones
front man Mick Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England.
Raised in a middle-class English family, Mick Jagger attended the
London School of Economics but left without graduating in order to
pursue a career in music.
Mick Jagger with The Rolling Stones.
SANDY KOZEL
SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner for the Italian Line
(Società di navigazione Italia) home-ported in Genoa, Italy,
most famous for her sinking on this day in 1956, when 46
people died. Andrea Doria was approaching the coast of
Nantucket, Massachusetts, bound for New York City, the
Eastbound MS Stockholm of the Swedish American Line
collided with it in one of history’s most infamous maritime
disasters.
During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launch their invasion of Puerto
Rico, the 108-mile-long, 40-mile-wide island that was one of Spain’s two
principal possessions in the Caribbean. With little resistance and only seven deaths, U.S. troops under General Nelson A. Miles were able to secure the
island by mid-August. After the signing of an armistice with Spain, American
troops raised the U.S. flag over the island, formalizing U.S. authority over its
one million inhabitants. Puerto Rico remains a U.S. commonwealth today.
On July 24, 1911, American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look
at Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the
world’s top tourist destinations.
Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Machu Picchu
is believed to have been a summer retreat for Inca leaders, whose civilization
was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century. For hundreds
of years afterwards, its existence was a secret known only to the peasants
living in the region. That all changed in the summer of 1911, when Bingham
arrived with a small team of explorers to search for the famous “lost” cities
of the Incas.
Hiram Bingham III
(November 19, 1875 – June 6, 1956)
