Yes it really happened

[Laan Yaa Mo]

on this day

In 1838 the coronation of Queen Victoria, aged 19, took place at Westminster Abbey; in 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo; in 1960 45 miners died in a gas explosion at the Six Bells Colliery in Monmouthshire, Wales; in 1991 the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher (obituary, April 8, 2013) declared that she would retire from the House of Commons at the next general election; in 2004 US-led coalition forces in Iraq transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government in Baghdad, two days ahead of schedule. It came just over a year after the March 2003 invasion.