On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1327: Edward II of England is murdered by order of his wife.
1915: Stonehenge is sold by auction for 6,600 pounds sterling ($11,500) to a Mr. Chubb, who buys it as a present for his wife. He presents it to the British nation three years later.
1937: J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit is published.
1941: The German Army cuts off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.
1978: Two Soviet cosmonauts set a space endurance record after 96 days in space.
1981: Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1991: Armenia granted independence from USSR.
1993: The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 begins when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and invalidates the existing constitution.
1999: Earthquake in Taiwan kills more than 2,400, injures over 11,305, and causes $300 billion New Taiwan dollars ($10 billion in U.S. dollars).
2003: Galileo space mission ends as the probe is sent into Jupiter's atmosphere where it is crushed.
