International Day of the Tropics

Anniversary of:
• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London burning down during a performance of Henry VIII (1613)
• the birthdays of Australian gangster Joseph “Squizzy” Taylor (1888). He was indirectly involved in the naming of The Squiz…
• the start of apartheid in South Africa (1949)
• Marilyn Monroe’s marriage to playwright Arthur Miller (1956)
• the deaths of Lana Turner (1995) and Katherine Hepburn (2003)
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ wedding (2012)