A Day In History

March

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In 1753 -- St. David's Day
In 1784 -- E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain.
In 1810 -- Frederic Chopin, pianist, composer, born.
In 1864 -- Patent issued for taking and projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
In 1910 -- David Niven, actor, born.
In 1927 -- Harry Belafonte, entertainer, born.
In 1946 -- Lana Wood (in Santa Monica, CA), actress, born.
In 1947 -- International Monetary Fund began operations.
In 1954 -- Ron Howard, actor (Mayberry RFD, Happy Days, American Graffiti), born.
In 1966 -- Venera 3, Venus landing.
In 1969 -- Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
In 1981 -- MTV goes on the air broadcasting "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.

2nd

In 1836 -- Texas declares its independence from Mexico
In 1861 -- Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
In 1865 -- At Waynesborough, Gen. Early's army is defeated.
In 1901 -- First telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
In 1904 -- Theodore Giesl (Dr. Seuss), author, born.
In 1917 -- Desi Arnaz, famous Cuban, bandleader, born.
In 1923 -- Time magazine first published.
In 1949 -- First non-stop, round-the-world airplane flight completed.
In 1950 -- Karen Carpenter (in Connecticut), drummer for the Carpenters, singer, born.
In 1978 -- Soyuz 28 is launched.
In 1991 -- Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95.

3rd

In 1847 -- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, born.
In 1851 -- U.S. Congress authorizes smallest U.S. silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
In 1875 -- A 20-cent coin was authorized by U.S. Congress (It only lasted 3 years).
In 1911 -- Jean Harlow, sex goddess of the 30s, born.
In 1931 -- "Star Spangled Banner" officially became US national anthem.
In 1943 -- U.S. wins Battle of Bismarck Sea over Japan.
In 1945 -- U.S. and Philippine forces recaptured Corregidor.
In 1956 -- Morocco gains its independence.
In 1962 -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee, runner, born.
In 1969 -- Apollo 9 is launched.
In 1972 -- Pioneer 10 launched. First to traverse asteroid belt, leave system
In 1974 -- David Faustino, actor (Married With Children's Bud Bundy), born.
In 1985 -- "Moonlighting" TV show premieres.

4th

In 1785 -- Alessandro Manzoni, poet, born.
In 1875 -- Maurice Ravel, composer (Bolero), born
In 1876 -- Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
In 1926 -- Transatlantic phone service begins between New York and London.
In 1930 -- Lord Snowdon, photographer, born.
In 1933 -- The game "Monopoly" is invented.
In 1934 -- Willard Scott, weatherman, original Ronald McDonald, born.
In 1936 -- Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to Rhineland.
In 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin began a conference at Yalta.
In 1960 -- Ivan Lendl, tennis player, born

5th

In 1825 -- Hannah Lord Montague of New York grabs her scissors and creates the first detachable collar on one of her husband's shirts, in order to reduce her laundry load.
In 1837 -- Dwight Lyman Moody, evangelist, born.
In 1840 -- John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire, born.
In 1848 -- Belle Starr, entertainer of the wild west, born.
In 1878 -- Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker, born.
In 1887 -- Giuseppe Verdi's opera Othello premiers.
In 1900 -- Adlai E. Stevenson, statesman, born.
In 1919 -- Red Buttons, comedian, actor, born.
In 1921 -- N.Y. Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium.
In 1937 -- FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, plan failed because critics feared it would allow "court packing" in his favor.
In 1946 -- Charlotte Rampling (in England), actress, born.
In 1948 -- Barbara Hershey (in Atlanta, Georgia), actress, born.
In 1969 -- Bobby Brown, singer, married to Whitney Houston, born.
In 1983 -- After being expelled from Bolivia, former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie was brought to Lyon, France to stand trial for alleged war crimes.

6th

In 1475 -- Michelangelo, Renaissance artist, born.
In 1619 -- Cyrano de Bergerac, writer, born.
In 1756 -- Aaron Burr, duelist, born.
In 1806 -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, born.
In 1836 -- The Alamo falls. (Remember it!)
In 1923 -- Ed McMahon, #1 second banana, famed announcer, sweepstakes harbinger, born.
In 1924 -- William Webster, FBI director, born.
In 1927 -- Gordon Cooper Jr., astronaut, born.
In 1930 -- Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen foods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.
In 1937 -- Merle Haggard, singer, born.
In 1937 -- Valentina Tereshkova (in Russia), cosmonaut, first woman in space, born.
In 1944 -- Mary Wilson, singer (Supremes), born.
In 1945 -- Rob Reiner, actor, director (All in the Family, Spinal Tap), born.
In 1947 -- Kiki Dee (in Yorkshire, England), singer, born.
In 1957 -- The Gold Coast gains independence and takes the name Ghana.
In 1963 -- Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copus, and Hawkshaw Hawkins die in a plane crash.
In 1981 -- Soyuz 39 returns to Earth.

7th

In 1583 -- Thomas Aquinas Day.
In 1848 -- In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
In 1875 -- Maurice Ravel (in Cibourne, France), composer (Bollero), born.
In 1876 -- Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
In 1911 -- U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border.
In 1926 -- Transatlantic phone service begins between New York and London.
In 1933 -- The game "Monopoly" is invented.
In 1934 -- Willard Scott, weatherman, original Ronald McDonald, born.
In 1936 -- Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to Rhineland.
In 1940 -- Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Hill Street Blues)
In 1945 -- John Heard, actor, born.
In 1945 -- During World War II, US forces crossed the Rhine River.
In 1955 -- "Peter Pan", with Mary Martin in the title role, is first televised.
In 1959 -- M. C. Garlow becomes the first aviator to fly a million miles in a jet airplane.
In 1960 -- Ivan Lendl, retired tennis player, born.

In 1962 -- Garth Brooks, C&W singer, born.
In 1965 -- March by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Alabama.
In 1960 -- Ivan Lendl, retired tennis player, born.

In 1975 -- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met with President Carter.

8th

In 1787 -- Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery, born.
In 1841 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, famous Supreme Court Justice, born.
In 1859 -- Kenneth Grahame, author (The Wind in the Willows), born.
In 1879 -- Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, born.
In 1910 -- Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot.
In 1921 -- Cyd Charisse (in Amarillo, Texas), actor, dancer, born.
In 1943 -- Lynn Redgrave (in London, England), actor, political activist, born.
In 1945 -- International Women's Day
In 1946 -- First helicopter licensed for commercial use - New York city.
In 1947 -- Carole Bayer Sager (in New York), wife of Burt Bacharach, born.
In 1959 -- Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together.

9th

In 1454 -- Amerigo Vespucci, explorer and namesake of America (lucky they didn't call it Vespuccia)
In 1661 -- Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister of France, died.
In 1796 -- Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais.
In 1822 -- Charles Graham of N. Y. was granted a patent for artificial teeth.
In 1860 -- First Japanese ambassador to the U.S.
In 1918 -- Mickey Spillane, mystery writer, born.
In 1934 -- Yuri Gagarin, first man into space, born.
In 1936 -- Glenda Jackson, actor (Hopscotch), born.
In 1940 -- Raul Julia, actor (Gomez in the Addams Family), born.
In 1943 -- Bobby Fischer, chess player, born.
In 1954 -- Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen. McCarthy on "See it Now".
In 1996 -- Nathan Birnbaum (aka George Burns), entertainer, actor, dies at 100 years old.

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10th

In 1876 -- The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell.
In 1888 -- The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin welfare and religious activity here.
In 1933 -- Big earthquake in Long Beach (W. C. Fields was making a movie when it struck and the cameras kept running).
In 1948 -- First civilian to exceed speed of sound -- H. H. Houver at Edwards Air Force Base, CA
In 1964 -- Prince Edward of England, royalty, born.
In 1978 -- Soyuz 28 returns to Earth.

11th

In 1302 -- According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.
In 1810 -- Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise.
In 1847 -- John Chapman 'Johnny Appleseed' died in Allen County, Ind.
In 1867 -- Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
In 1888 -- Blizzard struck the northeastern United States. 400 people died.
In 1892 -- First public game of basketball.
In 1903 -- Lawrence Welk, bandleader, bubble maker, born.
In 1916 -- Harold Wilson, former British Prime Minister, born.
In 1931 -- Rupert Murdoch, "newspaper" publisher, born.
In 1934 -- Tina Louise, actor (Gilligan's Island), born.
In 1938 -- Germany invades Austria.
In 1941 -- President FDR signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill.
In 1942 -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur left Bataan for Australia.
In 1985 -- Soviet Union announces death of its leader Konstantin Chernenko. Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes Communist Party general secretary.

12th

1676 -- Native Americans attack Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1789 -- The first U.S. Post Office is opened.
1802 -- The first non-Native American child is born in North Dakota.
1864 -- Grant is made commander in chief of all Union armies.
1888 -- A blizzard hits the Northeast U.S. and is responsible for great loss of life and widespread destruction.
1893 -- Three male burglars aged ten, twelve and thirteen are the youngest ever to engage in this lawlessness and are arrested in New York City.
1912 -- The Girl Scouts of America is founded by Juliette Low in Savannah, Georgia.
1947 -- President Truman requests aid for Turkey and Greece and sets forth the Truman Doctrine for the containment of Communism.
1991 -- Exxon Corporation is ordered to pay $1.1 Billion settlement including civil and criminal damages as a result of the Valdez oil spill.
Birthdays: Playwright Edward Albee (1928), Actress, singer Liza Minelli (1946), Singer, songwriter James Taylor (1948).

13th

1656 -- Jews are now permitted to worship in their own houses in New Amsterdam, but not publicly in synagogues.
1677 -- The province of Maine is purchased by John Usher for $1,677 dollars.
1852 -- Uncle Sam first appears in a weekly comic publication.
1868 -- President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial begins; he is later acquitted.
1877 -- Earmuffs are invented by Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine.
1884 -- Standard Time is established in the U.S.
1987 -- Goldsboro Christian School in North Carolina is ordered to re-admit Machelle Outlaw who was expelled for modeling swimsuits.
1994 -- An artificial element, known as Element 106, is named seaborgium in honor of U.S. Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn Seaborg.

Birthdays: Singer, songwriter Neil Sidaka (1939)

14th

1794 -- Eli Whitney is granted a patent for his cotton gin.
1812 -- The first U.S. war bonds are sold.
1900 -- The U.S. adopts the gold standard.
1950 -- The FBI's "Most Wanted List" is established.
1964 -- Jack Ruby is convicted in Dallas, Texas of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1987 -- International leaders meet in the first Eleanor Roosevelt International Caucus of Women Political Leaders in San Francisco, California.
1988 -- Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is indicted on Iran-Contra related charges.
1991 -- A twenty week strike which had crippled the New York Daily News is finally ended when British publisher Robert Maxwell agrees to buy the paper and settle disputes with the Union.

Birthdays: Musician Quincy Jones (1933), Actor, comedian Billy Crystal (1947)

15th

1781 -- British military leader Cornwallis suffers heavy losses and abandons plans to control the Carolinas.
1820 -- Maine is admitted to the Union as the 23rd state.
1875 -- Archbishop John McCloskey becomes the first U.S. cardinal.
1917 -- U.S. government recognizes the new government formed in Russia by Aleksandr Kerensky.
1956 -- The longest-running musical in the history of Broadway theater, My Fair Lady, is first performed in New York City.
1992 -- Investigators report that pieces of an old airplane have been found on a remote Pacific Island which are believed to be associated with the mysterious disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart.

Birthdays: 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland (1837), Actor Michael Caine (1933), Singer, songwriter Terence Trent D'Arby (1962)

16th

1621 -- The colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts is paid the first visit by a Native American chief.
1641 -- A general court declares Rhode Island a democracy and adopts a new constitution granting freedom of religion to all citizens and changing the name of the Island to Rhode Island.
1802 -- The United States Military Academy is established at West Point, New York.
1830 -- The New York Stock Exchange experiences its slowest day ever, with just thirty-one shares being traded.
1987 -- The U.S. is ranked the fifth most desirable place to live, according to a study by the
Population Crisis Committee.
1991 -- Seven country musicians who are members of Reba McIntire's band along with a road manager and two pilots are killed when their chartered plane crashes in the California mountains.

Birthdays: 4th president of the United States James Madison (1751), Composer John Addison (1920), actor and comedian Jerry Lewis (1926), Director, screenwriter Bernardo Bertolucci (1940), Actress Kate Nelligan (1951).

17th

1763 -- The first St. Patrick's Day Parade is held in New York City.
1884 -- John Montgomery becomes the first man to fly a glider when he traveled approximately 600 feet across a California valley.
1898 -- The first practical submarine made by John P. Holland is submerged off Staten Island, New York and remains underwater for a little longer than an hour.
1912 -- The Camp Fire Girls is founded by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick at Lake Sebago, Maine.
1912 -- The first cherry tree is planted in Washington, D.C., by Mrs. William Howard Taft.
1941 -- The National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
1950 -- The heaviest element, Californium, is discovered by researchers at the University of
California at Berkeley.
1963 -- The second American to be beatified by the Pope is Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton.

Birthdays: Composer, conductor Alfred Newman (1901), Actor Kurt Russell (1951), Actor Rob Lowe (1964)

18th

1673 -- Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
1870 -- The first U.S. National Wildlife Preserve is Lake Meritt in Oakland, California.
1931 -- The first electric shavers go on sale in the U.S..
1944 -- Approximately 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers in their panic to buy 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store.
1966 -- Gemini 8 is launched by NASA, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Captain David R. Scott, and becomes the first U.S. spacecraft to dock in space.
1974 -- Arab oil-producing nations agree to end the embargo against the U.S.
1987 -- A Gerber Company survey finds the most popular names for newborns are Jessica and Matthew.
1989 -- The largest robbery in the history of art occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where twelve paintings valued at $100 million are stolen.

Birthdays: Novelist John Updike (1932), Singer, songwriter Wilson Pickett (1941).

19th

1524 -- Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around the area of the Carolinas.
1628 -- The Massachusetts colony is founded by Englishmen.
1831 -- The first bank robbery takes place at the City Bank of New York.
1920 -- The U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles.

Birthdays: Actress Ursula Andress (1936), Actress Glenn Close (1947), Actor Bruce Willis (1955)

20th

1760 -- A severe fire rages out of control throughout Boston.
1852 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1899 -- The first woman executed by electrocution is M. M. Place in Ossining, New York.
1954 -- The first newspaper vending machine is used in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
1967 -- The first U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam is A. J. F. Moody.
1987 -- Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood, California for an entertainment summit to limit Cold War stereotypes in films.
1991 -- The Supreme Court Rules unanimously that employers cannot exclude women from jobs in which exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially cause damage to a developing fetus.

Birthdays: Writer Heinrich Ibsen (1828), Actor, screenwriter Carl Reiner (1923), Actor William Hurt (1950)

21st

1891 -- The long standing Hatfield-McCoy feud of West Virginia ends when a son and a daughter, one from each faction, announce their engagement.
1917 -- The first female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh.
1965 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. heads a procession of 4,000 civil rights demonstrators from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1991 -- Twenty-seven men are lost at sea when two U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide over Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California.
1994 -- Anne Phipps Sidamon-Eristoff is named chairwoman of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, making her the second woman to be named to a top post at the Museum.

Birthdays: Actor Timothy Dalton (1944), Actor Gary Oldman (1958)

22nd

1621 -- The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians reach a treaty.
1765 -- The Stamp Act is passed by the English Parliament and is the first direct tax on the American colonies.
1794 -- A bill banning slave trade with foreign nations is passed by Congress.
1861 -- The first U.S. nursing school is chartered.
1960 -- The first patent for lasers is granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes.
1991 -- Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers raid fraternities at the University of Virginia seizing bags of drugs and arresting eleven students.
1992 -- Twenty-seven people are killed and fourteen are injured when a Dutch airliner runs off the runway and into the bay at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
1994 -- Netherlands Ambassador to the U.S. christens a new tulip the Hillary Clinton, named after the first lady.

Birthdays: Actor, comedian Chico Marx (1887), Composer, screenwriter Stephen Sondheim (1930), Actor William Shatner (1931), Actor Matthew Modine (1959).

23rd

1775 -- Patrick Henry proclaims: "Give me liberty or give me death."
1794 -- The rivet is patented by J. G. Pierson.
1858 -- The streetcar is patented by E. A. Gardner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1868 -- The University of California is founded in Oakland, California.
1922 -- The first airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1987 -- The U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf.

Birthdays: Director, screenwriter Akiri Kurosawa (1910), Composer Vangelis (1943), Singer, songwriter Chaka Khan (1953), Actress Amanda Plummer (1957), Actress Joan Crawford (1904).

24th

1923 -- The Twin Cities are the first cities in the world to have the noiseless roller-bearing street cars.
1934 -- The U.S. Act declares that the Philippines will be independent, starting in 1945.
1965 -- Robert F. Kennedy reaches the top of Mt. Kennedy in the Yukon Territory, becoming the first person to scale the highest unclimbed mountain in America. The mountain had been named by the Canadian government in honor of the Senator's brother, the late President John F. Kennedy.
1989 -- The Exxon Valdez oil tanker causes a major oil spill in Prince William Sound, off the coast of Alaska.
1994 -- A 36-inch underground natural gas pipeline ruptured and exploded in Edison, New Jersey, sending shock waves throughout the area. The disaster left a crater over 120 feet wide and 40 feet deep. One hundred were injured and one related death was reported.

Birthdays: Actor, director, screenwriter "Fatty" Arbuckle (1887), Actor Steve McQueen (1930)

25th

1584 -- Sir Walter Raleigh renews Sir Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore and settle North
America.
1609 -- Henry Hudson sets out on the seven-month exploration for the Dutch East India Company that takes him to America.
1668 -- The first recorded horse race in the U.S. takes place at Hemstead, New York.
1687 -- Governor Andros orders that the Old South Meeting House be converted into an Anglican Church.
1882 -- The first public demonstration of pancake making is held in a New York City department store.
1992 -- In Washington D.C. members of the U.S. Senate meet with exiled author Salman Rushdie despite a warning from the state department that meeting with him could potentially bring revenge from Muslim extremists.

Birthdays: Actor Ed Begley (1901), Singer, songwriter Elton John (1947), Actress Bonnie Bedelia (1952)

26th

1790 -- The Naturalization Act is passed by Congress and requires a two-year residency for new citizens.
1856 -- The first trolley line in the U.S. is opened between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1937 -- A statue of Popeye, the cartoon character, is dedicated in Crystal, Texas during a local spinach festival, immortalizing the popular icon.
1943 -- Elsie S. Ott is the first woman awarded the U.S. Air Force Medal at Bowman Field, Kentucky.
1979 -- President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
1991 -- The Supreme Court rules that use of a coerced statement during a trial does not
automatically void a conviction.
1992 -- Former heavyweight boxing champion of the world Mike Tyson is sentenced to six years in prison for raping an Indiana beauty pageant contestant.

Birthdays: Playwright Tennessee Williams (1926), Actor Leonard Nimoy (1931), Actor, director Alan Arkin (1934), Actor, director James Caan (1939), Singer, actress Diana Ross (1944), musician Steven Tyler (1948).

27th

1614 -- The Netherlands passes the Ordinance of 1614 to encourage exploration and colonization efforts by the Dutch.
1794 -- The U.S. Navy is established by Congress.
1804 -- The U.S. Navy Yard is established in Washington, D.C.
1955 -- The first U.S. coast-to-coast color television broadcast is shown from New York to California.
1964 -- A severe earthquake occurs in Alaska, killing 66 and causing damages of close to $500 million.
1987 -- President Reagan announces he will place a 100% duty on a wide range of Japanese
electronic products.
1992 -- A Philadelphia man is arrested and charged with maliciously spreading AIDS to over 100 other people.

Birthdays: Actor, director James Cruze (1884), Actor Julian Glover (1935)

28th

1797 -- The first washing machine is patented in the U.S.
1886 -- Apache Indian leader Geronimo escapes after one day of surrender.
1944 -- Singing commercials are banned by radio station WQXR in New York City.
1979 -- The Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania nuclear power plant suffers a major accident, and clouds of radioactive steam pour into the atmosphere.

Birthdays: Actress Dianne Wiest (1948)

29th

1638 -- The first Swedish expedition to the New World lands in Delaware.
1676 -- Native Americans attack Providence, Rhode Island.
1848 -- Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam blocking the Niagara River in Buffalo, New York.
1867 -- The Lincoln Memorial is approved by Congress.
1961 -- The 23rd Constitutional Amendment is passed giving voting privileges to citizens of the District of Columbia.
1973 -- The last American ground troops leave Vietnam.
1991 -- Former President Ronald Reagan reverses his position by coming out in favor of seven day waiting periods for purchases of handguns.

Birthdays: 10th president of the United States John Tyler (1790)

30th

1791 -- Maryland cedes the District of Columbia to the federal government.
1822 -- Congressional legislation combines East and West Florida into the Florida Territory.
1858 -- Hyman L. Lipman receives a patent for a pencil with a rubber eraser.
1867 -- The U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7 million dollars.
1870 -- The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution goes into effect and gives the right to vote to all U.S. citizens.
1920 -- The Julliard Music Foundation is established.
1923 -- The Laconia, the first passenger ship to sail around the world, returns to New York after 130 days at sea.
1942 -- A directive from Washington, D.C. decrees that men's suits be manufactured without trouser cuffs, pleats and patch pockets for the duration of the war.
1981 -- John W. Hinckley shoots and wounds President Ronald Reagan.
1991 -- Heavy rain storms rage across the southeastern United States killing at least twenty-three.

Birthdays: Actor Warren Beatty (1937), Musician Eric Clapton (1945)

31st

1820 -- The first U.S. missionaries arrive in Hawaii.
1840 -- A ten-hour work day for federal employees in public works jobs is established by executive order.
1870 -- The first African American votes in a municipal election in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
1885 -- Women's College, later called Goucher College, is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
1917 -- The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1918 -- Daylight Savings Time is first used in the U.S.
1925 -- Mt. Rushmore National Memorial is authorized by Congress with sculptor Gutzon Borgium to carve Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
1932 -- The V-8 engine is introduced by Ford.
1948 -- The Cold War begins.

Birthdays: Actor Richard Chamberlain (1935), Writer William Lederer (1912), Band leader Herb Alpert (1935).

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