On this Date

No time ain't travelling faster. I had a lazy Sunday so you got Sunday late and here is Monday early..................

1606 The combined English Scottish Union Jack flag was created by Royal Decree, originally for use at sea.

1861 The first shots in the American Civil War were fired as the Confederates take Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

1981 Soviet Yuri Gargarin becomes the first man in Space aboard Vostok 1.