In 0001 -- Origin of Christian Era
In 1895 --J. Edgar Hoover, Mr. FBI, born.
In 1969 --Ian Fleming writer (James Bond), dies at 80
In 1995 --Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started
1980)
In 2000 or 2001 --Beginning of the new Millennium, depending on your
point-of-view.
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In 1800 --Free black commission of Philadelphia
petitioned Congress to abolish slavery.
In 1870 --Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins
In 1917 --Royal Bank of Canada took over the Quebec Bank.
In 1920 --Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer, born.
In 1935 --Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of
Charles Lindberg's baby.
In 1939 --Jim Baker, televangelist, con-man, born.
In 1942 --Japanese occupied Manila.
In 1942 --Twenty-eight nations at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace.
In 1955 --President Jose Antonio Ramón of Panama assassinated.
In 1959 --Luna 1(USSR) launched.
In 1968 --Dr. Christian Barnard performs the second successful heart
transplant.
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In 106 B.C. --Cicero, Roman statesman, born.
In 1888 --First drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in
Washington, D.C.
In 1892 --J. R. R. Tolkien, linguist, author (The Hobbit, Lord of the
Rings), born.
In 1909 --Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, born.
In 1920 --NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox.
In 1921 --Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
In 1933 --Dabney Coleman, actor, born.
In 1943 --Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.
In 1951 --Victoria Principal, actress, born.
In 1952 --"Dragnet" is suddenly plastered on TV across
America
In 1956 --Mel Gibson, actor, born.
In 1957 --First electric watch introduced at Lancaster, PA.
In 1958 --Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland.
In 1961 --Experimental reactor kills three in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
In 1961 --U.S. breaks relations with Cuba.
In 1964 --Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, died
In 1977 --Apple Computer incorporated.
In 1980 --Alfred Hitchcock knighted -- Good Evening.
In 1980 --BSD UNIX 3.0 released
In 1993 --President Bush and President Yeltsin sign historic
nuclear arms reduction treaty.
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In 1643 --Sir Isaac Newton, scientist, discovered laws of
gravity.
In 1785 --Jacob Grimm (in Germany), storyteller
In 1797 --Wilhelm Beer, first to map Mars
In 1809 --Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind
In 1863 --Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of
New York.
In 1943 --Josef Stalin Declared Time Magazine's "Man Of The
Year"
In 1948 --Burmese National Day.
In 1951 --Chinese and North Koreans capture Seoul, South Korea
In 1958 -- Sputnik 1 destroyed on reentry
In 1959 -- Matt Frewer, actor (Doctor Doctor, Max Headroom), born.
In 1954 -- Elvis Presley records his first two singles at Sun Record
Studios.
In 1960 -- Michael Stipe (REM Lead Singer), born.
In 1965 -- Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot, poet, died.
In 1970 -- The Beatles have their last recording session at EMI
studios.
In 1986 -- Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy, Lead Singer, died.
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In 1066 -- St. Edward the Confessor, died.
In 1589 -- Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died.
In 1809 -- Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain and
France.
In 1855 -- King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, born.
In 1889 -- Hamburger invented.
In 1919 -- National Socialist (Nazi) Party formed in Germany.
In 1922 -- Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died aboard his
ship.
In 1931 -- Robert Duvall, actor, born.
In 1933 -- Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
In 1933 -- Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President, died.
In 1938 -- Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, born.
In 1940 -- First FM radio transmission.
In 1945 -- 'Pepe Le Pew' debuts in his first cartoon.
In 1946 -- Diane Keaton (in Los Angeles, CA), actor, born.
In 1954 -- Pamela Sue Martin (in Connecticut), actor (Dallas), born.
In 1962 -- Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce My Bonnie and The Saints.
In 1964 -- Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel.
In 1968 -- Dr Spock indicted on draft law violations.
In 1969 -- Venera 5 launched. First successful landing on another
planet.
In 1972 -- NASA announced the start of the space shuttle program.
In 1987 -- Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ.
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In 548 (Israel) -- This was the last year the Church in
Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas
on December 25th began in the late 300s in the Western Church.).
In 1367 (England) -- Richard II, Bordeaux, France, king of England
(1377-99), born.
In 1412 (France) --Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr, born.
In 1540 (England) -- King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife,
Anne of Cleves.
In 1745 (France) -- Jacques Montgolfier, aeronaut (1st pioneer
balloonist), born.
In 1838 (USA) -- Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of
telegraph.
In 1857 (USA) -- Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel
Wetherill.
In 1880 (USA) --Tom Mix silent screen cowboy actor, born.
In 1883 (Lebanon) -- Khalil Gibran, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken
Wings), born.
In 1919 (USA) -- Theodore Roosevelt dies at his home in Oyster Bay, NY,
at 60.
In 1929 (Yugoslavia) -- Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in
Yugoslavia.
In 1941 (USA) -- FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship,
from want & from fear).
In 1946 (England) -- Syd Barrett, rocker (Pink Floyd-The Wall), born.
In 1949 (USA) -- Robert Englund, actor (V, Nightmare on Elm Street),
born.
In 1950 (England) -- Britain recognizes Communist government of China.
In 1956 (England) -- Rowan Atkinson, comedian/actor (Never Say Never
Again, Mr. Bean, Blackadder), born.
In 1977 (England) -- EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols.
In 1989 (Japan) -- Emperor Hirohito of Japan, dies at 87 after 62-year
reign.
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In 1536 (England) -- Catherine of Aragon 1st wife of
England's King Henry VIII, dies.
In 1537 (Italy) -- Alessandro de' Medici of Florence, assassinated.
In 1845 (Germany) -- Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18), born.
In 1558 (France) -- Calais, last English possession in France, retaken
by French.
In 1598 (Russia) -- Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of
Feodore I.
In 1610 (Italy) -- Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io,
Europa & Ganymede.
In 1904 (USA) -- Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as first int'l
radio distress signal.
In 1912 (USA) -- Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family),
born.
In 1929 (USA) -- "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip,
premiers.
In 1929 (USA) -- "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic
strips, 1st appears.
In 1934 (USA) -- "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond)
debuts.
In 1953 (USA) -- Pres. Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb.
In 1958 (Romania) -- Dr. Petru Groza premier of Romania, dies at 74.
In 1964 (USA) -- Nicolas Cage, actor (The Rock, Face/Off), born.
In 1964 (Bahamas) -- Bahamas achieves internal self-government &
cabinet responsibility.
In 1979 (Vietnam) -- Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer
Rouge.
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In 1798 -- 11th Amendment of American Constitution
ratified, Judicial powers construed.
In 1799 -- First Income Tax imposed.
In 1862 -- Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher and founder of Doubleday
and Co., born.
In 1868 -- Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by
gravity, born.
In 1880 -- The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of
Mexico.
In 1908 -- Simone De Beauvoir, writer, born.
In 1914 -- Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer born.
In 1926 -- Milton Hinkes (AKA Soupy Sales), comedian, born.
In 1935 -- Elvis Presley, singer, born.
In 1937 -- Shirley Bassey (in Wales), born.
In 1941 -- Suzannah York, actress, born.
In 1947 -- David Bowie, musician, actor, born.
In 1987 -- New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect.
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- In 1285 -- St. Thorfinn, Norwegian Bishop, Died.
In 1901 -- Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip,
born.
In 1913 -- Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974), born.
In 1936 -- Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army.
In 1937 -- Shirley Bassey (Singer), born.
In 1941 -- Joan Baez (in Staten Island, NY), folk singer, born.
In 1941 -- Susannah York (in London, England), actress, born
In 1945 -- As he vowed, General Douglas Macarthur returned to the
Philippines.
In 1951 -- Crystal Gayle (in Kentucky), singer, born.
In 1956 -- Rowan Atikinson (Comedian), born.
In 1959 -- Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba.
- In 1982 -- A 5.9
earthquake occurred in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
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In 1863 -- First underground railway opens in London.
In 1877 -- Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the electrostatic precipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers, born.
In 1920 -- League of Nations established.
In 1925 -- Max Roach, jazz drummer, born.
In 1944 -- First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia PA.
In 1945 -- Rod Stewart, singer, born.
In 1945 -- Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
In 1946 -- First radar signal to moon, Belmar, NJ.
In 1946 -- UN General Assembly meets for first time.
In 1949 -- George Foreman, boxer, born.
In 1953 -- Pat Benatar, singer, born.
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In 1755 -- Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the
US Treasury, born.
In 1787 -- Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William
Herschel.
In 1813 -- First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
In 1842 -- William James, Philosopher, born.
In 1906 -- Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD, born.
In 1935 -- Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of
course).
In 1963 -- Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why.
In 1975 -- Soyuz 17 is launched.
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In 1876 -- Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild), born.
In 1944 -- Joe Frazier, boxer, born.
In 1945 -- US Navy destroys 41 Japanese ships in the Battle of South China
Sea.
In 1955 -- Kirstie Alley, actress (Cheers, Star Trek II), born.
In 1971 -- "All in the Family" premiers.
In 1986 -- 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched.
In 1991 -- U.S. Congress backs war in Gulf.
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In 1381 -- St Colette abbess/reformer (Poor Clares), born.
In 1559 -- Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
In 1610 -- Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter.
In 1628 -- Charles Perrault France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose), born.
In 1888 -- National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC).
In 1906 -- First radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific
American) claimed to receive signals up to ONE MILE.
In 1919 -- Robert Stack, LA California actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables,
Airplane), born.
In 1930 -- "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears.
In 1941 -- James Joyce, novelist, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 58.
In 1942 -- German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast.
In 1942 -- Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto
bodies.
In 1958 -- 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test
ban.
In 1961 -- Graham "Suggs" McPherson rocker (Madness-Our House),
born.
In 1961 -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus NYC, comedienne (SNL, Steinfeld, Day by
Day), born.
In 1986 -- Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen.
In 1987 -- 7 top NY Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each.
In 1988 -- Ching-Kao Chiang, president of Taiwan, dies at 81.
In 1989 -- "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM
computers in Britain.
In 1989 -- Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq.
In 1991 -- UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam
Hussein in Baghdad.
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In 1237 -- St Sava, son of Serbia's king, dies.
In 1526 -- Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy &
Flanders.
In 1742 -- Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86.
In 1799 -- King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies.
In 1814 -- King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of
Kiel.
In 1861 -- Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22), born.
In 1875 -- Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1952),
born.
In 1898 -- Lewis Carroll writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65.
In 1914 -- Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars.
In 1941 -- Faye Dunaway, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde), born.
In 1953 -- Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito).
In 1954 -- Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
In 1957 -- Humphrey Bogart actor, dies at 57.
In 1964 -- Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since
assassination.
In 1965 -- Vanity [Dee Dee Williams], singer/actress (Action Jackson),
born.
In 1966 -- David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About
Me).
In 1967 -- 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, SF.
In 1978 -- Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF).
In 1984 -- Ray Kroc founder of MacDonald's/owner San Diego Padres, dies at
82.
In 1986 -- Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected president
of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954.
In 1989 -- Twenty-nine year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris.
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- In 0069 -- Galba, Roman emperor, killed by Praetorian guard
in the Forum, Rome.
In 1535 -- Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church.
In 1582 -- Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to
the Baltic.
In 1622 -- Moliére, France, dramatist (Tartuffe, Les Misanthrope),
baptized.
In 1892 -- Basketball rules first published.
In 1895 -- Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiers, St
Petersburg.
In 1906 -- Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate, born.
In 1908 -- Edward Teller, Budapest, Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan
Project), born.
In 1913 -- Lloyd Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Flying High), born.
In 1918 -- Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971?), born.
In 1919 -- 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston, USA, drowning 21.
In 1919 -- Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier
of Poland
In 1922 -- Irish Free State forms
In 1923 -- Lithuania seize & annex the country of Memel
In 1929 -- Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Atlanta civil rights leader and
speaker (Nobel 1964),
born.
In 1936 -- First all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo,
Ohio
In 1943 -- World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
In 1970 -- Israeli archaeologists reported uncovering the first evidence
supporting the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by military forces of the
ancient Roman Empire.
- In 1973 -- Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at
Vatican
In 1974 -- "Happy Days" premiers on ABC-TV in the US.
In 1975 -- Space Mountain opens (Disneyland).
In 1985 -- Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21
years.
In 1987 -- Ray Bolger actor/dancer (Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz), dies at
82.
In 1988 -- Sean McBride Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies
at 83.
In 1991 -- UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they
don't).
In 1992 -- EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence.
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In 1547 -- Ivan IV the Terrible crowned 1st tsar of
Russia.
In 1765 -- Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major).
In 1853 -- Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer
(Michelin), born.
In 1908 -- Ethel Merman stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me
Madam), born.
In 1948 -- John Carpenter, director/composer (Halloween, The Thing), born.
In 1957 -- Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in England.
In 1963 -- Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb.
In 1979 -- Ted Cassidy Pittsburgh, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at
46.
In 1979 -- Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt.
In 1989 -- USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars.
In 1991 -- Operation Desert Storm begins. US & 27 allies attack Iraq
for occupying Kuwait (US times).
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In 1706 -- Benjamin Franklin, famous kite flyer, statesman, wit,
born.
In 1746 -- Battle Of Falkirk, Scotland.
In 1860 -- Anton Checkov (in Russia), writer, born.
In 1861 -- Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper
(honest!!).
In 1871 -- First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
In 1880 -- Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops, born.
In 1899 -- Al Capone, Crime Boss, born.
In 1929 -- Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip
"Thimble Theatre."
In 1931 -- James Earl Jones, actor, narrator, voice of Darth Vader,
born.
In 1934 -- Shari Lewis (in Bronx, NY), puppeteer (Lambchop), born.
In 1942 -- Muhammed Ali, boxer who floats like a butterfly, stings
like a bee, born.
In 1950 -- Great Brink's robbery in Boston, $28 million.
In 1955 -- World's first nuclear powered ship, USS Nautilus.
In 1969 -- Led Zepplin's Debut Album released.
In 1991 -- At approx. 1:00 am Baghdad local time, allied forces
attacked, beginning Gulf War.
In 1994 -- Earthquake in California.
In 1995 -- Earthquake in Kobe.
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In 1520 -- Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes
at Lake Asunde.
In 1778 -- Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian
Islands).
In 1779 -- Peter Roget, thesaurus fame, inventor (slide rule, pocket
chessboard), born.
In 1813 -- Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of first useable barbed
wire), born.
In 1849 -- Sir Edmund Barton 1st PM of Australia (1900-03), born.
In 1871 -- German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I.
In 1882 -- Alan Alexander Milne author (Winnie-the-Pooh), born.
In 1892 -- Oliver Hardy, Harlem, Georgia comedy team member (Laurel &
Hardy), born.
In 1904 -- Cary Grant actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by
Northwest), born.
In 1913 -- Danny Kaye Bkln, NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye
Show), born.
In 1919 -- WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France.
In 1936 -- Rudyard Kipling author, dies in Burwash, England.
In 1943 -- Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis.
In 1943 -- Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of
Leningrad.
In 1955 -- Kevin Costner actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham),
born.
In 1964 -- Beatles 1st appearance in Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold
Your Hand-#35).
In 1980 -- Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1.
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In 1493 -- France cedes Roussillon & Cerdogne to Spain
by treaty of Barcelona.
In 1544 -- Francis II, king of France (1559-60), born.
In 1629 -- Abbas I Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57.
In 1736 -- James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine), born.
In 1806 -- Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
In 1809 -- Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum), born.
In 1825 -- Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in
tin cans.
In 1839 -- Paul Cezanne, France, impressionist painter (Bathers), born.
In 1853 -- Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premiers, in Rome.
In 1899 -- Anglo-Egyptian country of Sudan forms.
In 1915 -- Electric neon sign patented.
In 1920 -- Javier Perez de Cuellar, Lima, Peru, 5th secretary-general of
UN (1982-1996), born.
In 1935 -- Tippi Hedren, Minnesota actress (The Birds), born.
In 1937 -- Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record
(7h28m25s).
In 1939 -- Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4
sec..
In 1942 -- Michael Crawford England, Broadway star (Phantom of the Opera),
born.
In 1943 -- Janis Joplin, bluesy rock singer (Down on Me), born.
In 1946 -- Dolly Parton, country singer (Dolly, 9 to 5), born.
In 1954 -- Sydney Greenstreet actor (Maltese Falcon), dies at 74.
In 1966 -- Stefan Edberg, Sweden, tennis player (Wimbledon 1988), born.
In 1971 -- Beatles' Helter Skelter is played at the Charles Manson trial.
In 1981 -- Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing
suicide.
In 1981 -- US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages.
In 1990 -- Bhadwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru, dies at 58.
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In 1265 -- First English Parliament called into session by
Earl of Leicester.
In 1760 -- Charles III king of Spain (1759-88), born.
In 1775 -- Andre-Marie Ampere France, discovered electromagnetism, born.
In 1841 -- China cedes Hong Kong to the British.
In 1888 -- Leadbelly, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line),
born.
In 1896 -- George Burns, actor/comedian (Oh God),
born.
In 1920 -- DeForest Kelly actor (Dr. McCoy-Star Trek), born.
In 1920 -- Federico Fellini Italian director (Satyricon, La Dolce Vita),
born.
In 1921 -- Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1930 -- Edwin E "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., USAF/astronaut
(Gemini 12, Apollo
11), born.
In 1936 -- King George V of Britain dies, succeeded by Edward VIII.
In 1946 -- David Lynch, director (Dune, Eraserhead), born.
In 1947 -- Malcolm McLaren founded rock group (Sex Pistols-God Save the
Queen), born.
In 1948 -- Mahatma Gandhi India's pacifist, assassinated.
In 1952 -- Paul Stanley, rock guitarist (KISS), born.
In 1984 -- Johnny Weismuller actor (Tarzan, Jungle Jim), dies in
Acapulco at 79.
In 1993 -- Audrey Hepburn actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's), dies at 63
of colon cancer in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.
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In 1338 -- Charles V (the Wise), king of France (1364-80), born.
In 1604 -- Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be
the true tsar.
In 1793 -- Louis XVI French king, beheaded by French
revolutionaries.
In 1799 -- Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced.
In 1813 -- Pineapple introduced to Hawaii.
In 1824 -- Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen 2nd
Corps (ANV, Confed), born.
In 1905 -- Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer
(long-skirted look), born.
In 1920 -- Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76,
1986-?), born.
In 1921 -- Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial
heart, born.
In 1924 -- Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill
Show), born.
In 1924 -- Telly Savalas Garden City NJ, actor (Acapulco, Kojak),
born.
In 1924 -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke
at 54.
In 1940 -- Jack Nicklaus, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76),
born.
In 1941 -- Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor, born.
In 1950 -- George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London
at 46.
In 1954 -- Nautilus, 1st atomic powered submarine launched.
In 1957 -- Geena Davis, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly), born.
In 1959 -- Cecil Blount de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies
77.
In 1961 -- Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria.
In 1976 -- Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain
& France.
In 1977 -- Pres. Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft
evaders.
In 1978 -- Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1
for 24 weeks.
In 1979 -- Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
In 1990 -- John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the
Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official.
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In 1440 -- Ivan III (the Great) grand prince of Russia, born.
In 1517 -- Turks conquer Cairo.
In 1528 -- England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V of
Spain.
In 1561 -- Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum),
born.
In 1771 -- Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain.
In 1788 -- Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, England, romantic poet
(Don Juan), born.
In 1901 -- Queen Victoria, Britain's Queen, dies at 82.
In 1905 -- "Bloody Sunday"; Russian demonstrators fired on
by tsarist troops.
In 1909 -- U. Thant, Burma, 3rd UN secretary general (1962-72), born.
In 1918 -- Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet).
In 1934 -- Bill Bixby, SF CA, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite
Martian), born.
In 1939 -- Uranium atom first split at Columbia University.
In 1940 -- John Hurt, England, actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight
Express), born.
In 1957 -- Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula.
In 1959 -- Linda Blair, St Louis Mo, actress (Exorcist, Chained
Heat, Savage St), born.
In 1960 -- Michael Hutchence, Australia, rocker (Inxs-I Need You
Tonight), born.
In 1967 -- Olivia d'Abo, London England, actress, born.
In 1969 -- Judy Garland, singer/actress (The Wizard of
Oz), dies at 48 of an alcohol
overdose.
In 1976 -- Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record).
In 1987 -- R. Budd Dwyer, Pennsylvania State Treasurer, facing
prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a
televised news conference.
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In 1756 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy,
composer, born.
In 1832 -- Edouard Manet, French painter, born.
In 1849 -- Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S..
In 1899 -- Humphrey Bogart, actor, born.
In 1903 -- Randolph Scott, actor, born.
In 1909 -- First radio-assisted rescue at sea.
In 1944 -- Rutger Hauer, actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman
Weekend), born.
In 1958 -- Princess Caroline of Monaco, born.
In 1983 -- "The A-Team" (with Mr. T and George Peppard)
premiers.
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In 0638 -- Start of Islamic calendar.
In 1265 -- First English Parliament formally convened (some authorities).
In 1570 -- Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war
breaks out.
In 1579 -- Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic.
In 1719 -- Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire.
In 1832 -- Edouard Manet, France, Impressionist painter, born.
In 1896 -- Charlotte, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64), born.
In 1899 -- Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African
Queen), born.
In 1913 -- Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM assassinated.
In 1920 -- Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser of Germany to the
allies.
In 1950 -- George Orwell, British novelist, dies in London at 46.
In 1957 -- Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite of Monaco, born.
In 1970 -- Australia's first amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched.
In 1989 -- Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84.
In 1991 -- High-denomination banknotes withdrawn in USSR.
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In 1759 -- Robert Burns, Scottish poet, born.
In 1858 -- Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen
Victoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
In 1874 -- Somerset Maugham, poet, born.
In 1882 -- Virginia Woolf, author, born.
In 1915 -- Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San
Francisco.
In 1949 -- First Emmy Awards are given out.
In 1949 -- First Israeli election.
In 1961 -- First live, nationally televised, Presidential news conference
(JFK).
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In 1715 -- Claude Helvetius born, French philosopher.
In 1788 -- First settlement established by the English in Australia.
In 1841 -- Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain.
In 1880 -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur born, he did return!
In 1905 -- The Cullinan diamond, the world's largest, is found.
In 1925 -- Paul Newman born, actor, racer, popcorn and salad dressing
mogul
In 1926 -- Television is first demonstrated by John Logie Baird in London.
In 1928 -- Eartha Kitt born (in South Carolina)
In 1950 -- India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion.
Indian Republic Day Celebrated.
In 1954 -- Ground breaking for Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom, in Anaheim,
CA.
In 1961 -- Wayne Gretzky born, hockey player
In 1976 -- Israel opens the "Good Fence" to Lebanon.
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In 1832 -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you may know him as
Lewis Carroll), born.
In 1880 -- Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp.
In 1885 -- Jerome Kern, Broadway composer, born.
In 1888 -- National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC.
In 1921 -- Donna Reed (in Denison, Iowa), actor, born.
In 1926 -- First public demonstration of television.
In 1948 -- First Tape Recorder is sold.
In 1948 -- Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer, actor, born.
In 1964 -- "Introducing the Beatles" album released in U.S.
In 1967 -- Fatal Apollo I fire kills Grissom, Chaffee, and White.
In 1973 -- US and North Vietnam signed a cease-fire agreement.
In 1985 -- Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth.
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In 0814 -- Charlemagne German emperor, dies at 71.
In 1256 -- William of Holland Holy Roman emperor, dies at about 28.
In 1457 -- Henry VII king of England (1485-1509), born.
In 1547 -- Henry VIII King of England (1509-47), dies at 55.
In 1547 -- Nine-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England.
In 1581 -- James VI signs the 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland.
In 1595 -- Sir Francis Drake English navigator, dies at about 50.
In 1600 -- Clement IX Pistoia, Italy, 238th Roman Catholic pope (1667-69),
born.
In 1613 -- Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet
Neptune.
In 1693 -- Anna "Ivanovna" tsarina of Russia (1730-40), born.
In 1768 -- Frederick VI Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden
(1814), born.
In 1819 -- Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore.
In 1841 -- Henry Stanley journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa),
born.
In 1855 -- William Seward Burroughs inventor (recording adding machine),
born.
In 1912 -- Jackson Pollack abstract artist (Lavender Mist), born.
In 1928 -- Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101.
In 1933 -- Susan Sontag NYC, author/film director (1966 Pol Award), born.
In 1936 -- Alan Alda NYC, actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H), born.
In 1939 -- William Butler Yeats Irish poet, dies in France at 73.
In 1958 -- Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear
reactor.
In 1961 -- Republic of Rwanda proclaimed.
In 1980 -- Jimmy Durante NYC, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86.
In 1986 -- Christa McAuliffe, Dr Judith Arlene Resnik, Ellison S Onizuka,
Francis R Scobee, Michael J Smith and Ronald E McNair, die in the Challenger
Space shuttle disaster.
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In 1559 -- Sir Thomas Pope, English politician,
benefactor, dies at about 52.
In 1700 -- Daniel Bernoulli, Basel, Switzerland, mathematician, born.
In 1737 -- Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason),
born.
In 1834 -- Pres. Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor
dispute.
In 1837 -- Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, dramatist, killed in a duel.
In 1845 -- Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" 1st published.
In 1856 -- Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery.
In 1860 -- Anton Pavlovich, Chekhov Russia, writer (Cherry Orchard), born.
In 1880 -- W. C. Fields [Claude William Dukenfield], actor (Bank Dick),
born.
In 1916 -- First zeppelin raid (on Paris).
In 1920 -- Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide
Co..
In 1923 -- First flight of the autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain).
In 1939 -- Germaine Greer, Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author (Female
Eunich), born.
In 1945 -- Tom Selleck, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI), born.
In 1953 -- Oprah Winfrey, actress/TV host (Color Purple), born.
In 1956 -- H.L. Mencken, satirist, critic, dies in Baltimore at 75.
In 1959 -- Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released.
In 1964 -- Ninth Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
In 1969 -- Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars.
In 1974 -- Sara Gilbert, actress (Melissa-Roseanne), born.
In 1979 -- Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't
Like Mondays".
In 1989 -- USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit.
In 1991 -- Nelson Mandela meets Chief Buthelezi in Durban.
In 1991 -- Battle for Khafji in Saudia Arabia (begins).
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In 1882 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
in New Hyde Park NY, born.
In 1917 -- First jazz record in United States is cut.
In 1922 -- Barbara Hale, (in Dekalb, IL), actor (Perry Mason), born.
In 1930 -- Gene Hackman, actor (Target, Uncommon Valor), born.
In 1933 -- Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor.
In 1937 -- Vanessa Redgrave (in London, England), actor, born.
In 1937 -- Boris Spassky, chess player, born.
In 1941 -- Phil Collins, musician (Genesis), actor (Buster), born.
In 1950 -- Victoria Principal (in Japan), actor (Dallas), born.
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In 1504 -- By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to
Ferdinand of Aragon.
In 1797 -- Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished
Symphony), born.
In 1862 -- Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius.
In 1882 -- Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer,
born.
In 1901 -- Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at the Moscow Art
Theater.
In 1903 -- Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die
Darling), born.
In 1905 -- First auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A.G. MacDonald, Daytona
Beach.
In 1921 -- Carol Channing, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born.
In 1926 -- Jean Simmons, London England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys &
Dolls), born.
In 1928 -- Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company.
In 1929 -- Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia.
In 1937 -- Philip Glass, composer (Einstein on the Beach), born.
In 1946 -- Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic.
In 1951 -- Phil Collins, England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds),
born.
In 1956 -- Johnny Rotten [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the
Queen), born.
In 1958 -- James van Allen discovers radiation belt around Earth.
In 1958 -- US launches 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1.
In 1961 -- Lloyd Cole, guitar/vocals (& the Commotions-Rattlesnakes),
born.
In 1968 -- Nauru gains independence from Australia (1982 pop 8,421).
In 1970 -- Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges.
In 1990 -- First McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest
McDonalds.
In 1991 -- Battle for Khafji, Saudia Arabia (ends after 3 days).
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