Hello ladies and gents this is the viking telling you that today we are going to see
WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY
1941 The British sink five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean
1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I opens on Broadway starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner.
1961 The 23rd amendment, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, is ratified.
1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declares that he will reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.
1986 A court in Rome acquits six men in a plot to kill the Pope.
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