0070 - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
1531 - "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard
1621 - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London overnight
1634 - Massachusetts Bay colony annexes Maine colony
1665 - Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1790 - President Washington signed into law the first U.S. copyright law.
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
1837 - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1861 - Gen PGT Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1862 - Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks) [H]
1864 - Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1868 - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1879 - 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
1884 - Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1889 - Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn [H]
1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1902 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal [H]
1907 - Taxis begin running in NYC
1909 - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
1910 - The Union of South Africa was founded.
1912 - US marines land on Cuba
1913 - The 17th amendment to the Constitution,
providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1915 - An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 - Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
1926 - Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
1937 - German battleships shell Almeria Spain
1940 - General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dukirk
1940 - Winston Churchill flies to Paris
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1941 - 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1941 - German occupiers forbid Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1947 - Communists grab power in Hungary
1955 - Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955 - Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1961 - Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1970 - At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
1977 - Trans Alaska oil pipeline, three years in
the making, was completed.
1979 - Zimbabwe proclaims independence
1985 - Seven federally insured banks in Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Oregon
were closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. It was a single-day record for closings since the FDIC
was founded in 1934.
1985 - 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
1989 - House Speaker Jim Wright, dogged by
questions about his ethics, announced he would resign. (Thomas Foley later
succeeded him.)
1990 - President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened a four-day
summit in Washington, D.C., focusing on the role of a united Germany in Europe.
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1990 - Seinfeld--the show about nothing-- starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC
1991 - Defense Secretary Dick Cheney announced the United States had begun
storing military supplies in Israel for use in future conflicts.
1991 - Leaders of Angola's two warring factions
signed a peace treaty, ending a 16-year-old civil war.
1994 - The United States announced it was no longer
aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
1994 - Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., was indicted on felony charges, including
embezzlement. Under the rules of the Democratic caucus, he had to step down as
chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel's election for prime
minister, defeating incumbent Shimon Peres by nine-tenths of 1 percent.
2000 - President Clinton, visiting Portugal, tried to calm fears of a nuclear
arms race that would leave Europe vulnerable by promising to share any new
missile defense technology with U.S. allies.
1469 - Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration
1753 - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/Girondin orator (guillotined in 1793)
1819 - Walt Whitman (poet: Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain!)
1875 - Italo Montemezzi, composer
1892 - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization founder
1894 - Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan) (comedian: radio star: Allen's Alley, The Fred Allen Show, The Linit Bath Club Revue)
1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (clergyman: radio ministry; author and syndicated newspaper column: The Power of Positive Thinking)
1908 - Don Ameche (Dominic Amici) (Academy Award-winning actor: Cocoon [1985]; Trading Places, Corinna Corinna; inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame [1992])
1912 - Henry 'Scoop' Jackson (U.S. Senator from Washington)
1920 - Edward Bennett Williams (attorney; owner: Baltimore Orioles)
1922 - Denholm Elliott (actor: A Room with a View, The Bourne Identity, The Boys from Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Voyage of the Damned, Trading Places, Scorchers)
1923 - Ellsworth Kelly (painter)
1923 - Prince Rainer III (head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly)
1930 - Clint Eastwood, SF Calif, actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, Calif)
1933 - Shirley Verrett (opera singer: soprano: New York Met)
1935 - Ronald Laird (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: race walker: Pan-American Games gold medalist [1967])
1938 - Peter Yarrow (singer: group: Peter, Paul and Mary: Leaving on a Jet Plane, Puff the Magic Dragon, If I Had a Hammer, Blowin' in the Wind, I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music; songwriter: Torn Between Two Lovers)
1939 - Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage
1941 - Johnny Paycheck (Don Lytle) (country singer: Take This Job and Shove It, The Lovin' Machine, [Don't Take Her] She's All I Got, Someone to Give My Love To, Mr. Lovemaker, Song and Dance Man, For a Minute There, Slide Off Your Satin Sheets, Friend, Lover, Wife, Heartbreak Tennessee, Motel Time Again, Jukebox Charlie, The Cave; songwriter: Apartment No. 9, Touch My Heart)
1942 - 'Happy' (Harold) Hairston (basketball)
1943 - Joe Namath ('Broadway Joe': Pro Football Hall of Famer: quarterback: New York Jets: AFL's Rookie of the Year [1965], Player of the Year [1968], Super Bowl III MVP; pantyhose and ointment spokesperson)
1943 - Sharon Gless (Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney & Lacey [1985- 86, 1986-87]; Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Tales of the Unexpected)
1946 - Ranier Fassbinder (director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore)
1949 - Stanley Dancer (harness racer: Hall of Fame of the Trotter: driver of the year [1968], only driver to win two trotting triple crowns [1968, 1972], only driver to win Yonkers Trot 6 times, Cane Pace/Futurity 4 times, Hambletonian 5 times)
1950 - Gregory Harrison (actor: Logan's Run, Trapper John, M.D., Family Man, Cadillac Girls, Caught in the Act)
1950 - Roosevelt Manning (football)
1950 - Tom Berenger (actor: One Life to Live, If Tomorrow Comes, Platoon, Sliver, The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers, Gettysburg, Looking for Mr. Goodbar)
1952 - Jean Lemieux (hockey)
1955 - Laura Baugh (golfer)
1965 - Brooke Shields (the Ivory Snow baby; actress: The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, Brenda Starr, The Seventh Floor, Backstreet Dreams, Stalking Laura)
0455 - Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched
1809 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 77
1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
1952 - Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy plot (Venlo), dies of cancer
1962 - World War II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his
role in the Nazi Holocaust.
1976 - Martha Mitchell, the estranged wife of former Attorney General John N.
Mitchell, died in New York.
1982 - Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies at 86
1989 - Charles A Hufnagel, (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72
1994 - Herva Nelli, Toscanini's "favorite" soprano, dies at 85
1996 - Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard professor and LSD guru, dies of cancer at 75
1997 - Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon (Rosie the riveter), dies at 76
2000 - Bandleader Tito Puente died in New York at age 77.
