This Day in History

1593 The Portuguese cargo ship Santo Alberto is wrecked on the coast of Pondoland, south-west of the mouth of the Umtata River

?1955 Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer-winning play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ opens in New York, USA, two days before his 44th birthday

1989 One of the worst oil spills in US history begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska