0919 - Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Eastern Europe
1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on King John (known as "Lack land")
1459 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1534 - Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian
1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1588 - Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris
1641 - Prince William III (age 14) marries England princess Henriette Mary Stuart
(age 9)
1733 - Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
1776 - Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1780 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina
1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1832 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan
1835 - Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1862 - Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana
1863 - Battle of Raymond, Miss
1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia [H]
1864 - Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid)
1864 - Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
1865 - Skirmish at Palmito Ranch, Texas--the last land engagement of the Civil War
1871 - Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky
1890 - Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1898 - Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1902 - Mine Strike of 1902
1908 - George Bernard Shaw's "Getting Married," premieres in London
1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1915 - Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
1926 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1928 - Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1930 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
1932 - Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1932 - Lindbergh Baby Found Dead
1934 - "Cocktails For Two," by Duke Ellington hits #1
1937 - George VI Crowned at Westminster after his elder brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated due to widespread criticism of his desire to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee.
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1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 - Germany Invades France
1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
1941 - Adolf Hitler sends two bombers to Iraq to support Rashid Ali al-Gailani in his revolt against Britain,
1942 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1942 - David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
1942 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1942 - Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
1943 - German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina resigns
1949 - West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
1951 - 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1957 - A.J Foyt won his first major race, a midget car race in Kansas City,Missouri.
1963 - Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
1965 - Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1967 - H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
1968 - "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC
1969 - Chevrolet announced that it would discontinue production of the Corvair. The Corvair, which had come under heavy attack in Ralph Nader's 1965 diatribe Unsafe At Any Speed, never achieved great success, thanks mostly to its reputation for poor safety.
1970 - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1975 - US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces [H]
1977 - 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1978 - Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1980 - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
1982 - In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II
1984 - S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 yrs
1986 - Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif
1989 - "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
1989 - Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
1993 - Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1670 - August II, the Strong One, King of Poland (355 children)
1679 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
1739 - Johann Baptist Vanhal, composer
1754 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
1768 - Dolly Madison (Payne) (4th U.S. First Lady, wife of U.S. President James Madison)
1797 - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
1812 - Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
1820 - Florence Nightingale (health activist, nurse: promoted the nursing profession, contributed to modern nursing procedures, founded Nightingale Training School for Nurses; author: Notes on Nursing)
1828 - Gabriel Dante Rossetti (poet: The Blessed Damozel, Sister Helen, The House of Life; artist: The Annunciation; brother of poet, Christina
Rossetti)
1842 - Jules Emile Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
1845 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1900 - Mildred McAfee (1st Director of U.S. Navy WAVES [Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service); Wellesley College President; Distinguished Service
Medallist [1945])
1902 - Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor
1903 - Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn (Academy Award-winning Actress: Morning Glory [1932-33], Guess Who's Coming to Dinner [1967], The Lion in Winter [1968], On Golden Pond [1981]; Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike, The African Queen, The Rainmaker, Rooster Cogburn, Suddenly Last Summer, Mary of Scotland, Love Affair)
1907 - Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (The Saint)
1914 - Howard K. (Kingsbury) Smith (journalist, TV anchorman: ABC News)
1921 - Joe (Otis W.) Maphis (country singer with wife, Rose Lee: entertainer: Hometown Jamboree, Town Hall Party, Hee Haw; songwriter: Dim Lights Thick Smoke and Loud, Loud Music)
1922 - Bob Goldham (hockey)
1925 - John Simon, theater critic
1925 - Yogi (Lawrence) Berra (Baseball Hall of Famer: catcher/manager of the NY Yankees, former manager of NY Mets; Baseball Writers' Award: NY Yankees [1951, 1954, 1955])
1929 - Burt Bacharach (Oscar-winning composer: w/ Hal David: Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head [1969]; Tony award for score for Promises, Promises; What the World Needs Now, Walk on By, Close to You, I Say a Little Prayer, Do You Know the Way to San Jose; Oscar-winning team w/wife, Carol Bayer Sager: Arthur's Theme [1981], That's What Friends are For)
1935 - Felipe Alou (baseball)
1935 - John Bucyk (Hockey Hall of Famer: Boston Bruins: Lady Byng Trophy winner [1971])
1936 - Frank Stella (abstract artist: Empress of India)
1936 - Tom Snyder (broadcast journalist: WNBC, KNBC; host: The Late Show with Tom Snyder, Tomorrow, Contact, The Tom Snyder Radio Show)
1937 - George Carlin (comedian: The George Carlin Show, Award Theater, 1st host of Saturday Night Live, The Kraft Summer Music Hall, Wonderful W-I-N-O, Seven Dirty Words, actor: Prince of Tides, That Girl, Car Wash, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1938 - Millie Perkins (actress: Wall Street, Ensign Pulver)
1938 - Susan Hampshire (actress: David Copperfield, Cry Terror)
1939 - Ron Ziegler (journalist, Press Secretary for U.S. President Richard M. Nixon)
1941 - Anthony Newman, LA Calif, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb)
1942 - Tod Kubiak (baseball)
1948 - Steve Winwood (singer: Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin'; Blind Faith: Traffic: While You See a Chance; solo: Don't You Know What the Night Can Do, Higher Love, The Finer Things, Roll With It)
1950 - Pat Darcy (baseball)
1951 - Bruce Boxleitner (actor: Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Babe)
1958 - Christian Brando, son of Marlon
1962 - Emilio Estevez (actor: Breakfast Club, Repo Man, Young Guns, Stakeout, The Mighty Ducks, Men at Work, Freejack; Martin Sheen's son, Charlie's brother, Paula Abdul's ex)
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1649 - Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1814 - Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Declaration
of Independence), dies at 83
1845 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
1864 - J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31 [H]
1871 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
1884 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (MaVlast, Bartered Bride), dies at 60
1907 - J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59
1931 - Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
