0455 - Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome
1774 - England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes
1835 - P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 - Maine's 1st Prohibition law enacted
1858 - The Donati Comet 1st seen, named after it's discoverer.
1863 - Harriet Tubman led a group of Union troops into Confederate territory.
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor, Day 2
1865 - The American Civil War came to an end when Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby
Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi,
signed the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators.
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1873 - Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad.
1883 - 1st night baseball under lights Ft Wayne IN
1883 - Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1886 - President Grover Cleveland became the first US president to marry while in
office, when at 49 he married Frances Folsom, the 21-year-old daughter of his
former law partner, in a White House ceremony. The bride became the youngest
first lady in U.S. history.
1896 - Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi received the first patent for broadcasting by electromagnetic waves.
1902 - 1st statewide initiative and referendum law adopted - in Oregon
1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1924 - US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1928 - Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1935 - Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1936 - Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1946 - Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1953 - Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom was crowned Queen Elizabeth II. in Westminster Abbey [H]
1966 - The US spacecraft Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum , the first successful soft landing on the moon
1969 - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 - John Paul II returned home to Poland in the first visit by
a pope to a communist country
1983 - Toilet catches fire in Douglas DC-9 23 die at Cincinnati
1984 - Actress Jill Ireland had a radical masectomy
1989 - 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1991 - Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and Jordan's
King Hussein agreed to meet "face-to-face" in Jordan. The meeting
was proposed by the monarch.
1992 - Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential
nomination as six states held the final primaries of the 1992 political
season.
1994 - President Clinton met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
1995 - A U.S. F-16 fighter-jet was shot down by a Serb-launched missile while
on patrol over Bosnia. The pilot, Air Force Capt. Scott O'Grady, ejected
safely and landed behind Serb lines. He was rescued six days later.
1995 - Bosnian Serbs began releasing the 370 U.N.peacekeepers they'd been
holding hostage.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168 [H]
1998 - Former White House intern Monica
Lewinsky fired her lawyer, William Ginsburg, and retained two criminal
lawyers. They would win her a grant of immunity from prosecution in return for
her testimony before the grand jury investigating President Clinton's alleged
relationship with her.
1999 - In parliamentary elections, South African voters kept the African
National Congress in power, assuring that its leader, Thabo Mbeki, would
succeed the retiring Nelson Mandela as president.
1491 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47)
1624 - Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96)
1732 - The first First Lady, Martha Washington
1740 - Marquis de Sade, nobleman/erotic writer (Justine) 1st known sadist [H]
1773 - John Randolph (statesman)
1815 - Philip Kearny, one of the most promising generals in the Union army, is
born in New York City.
1835 - St. Pius X, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
1840 - Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge)
1857 - Karl Gjellerup, Danish poet novelist (Nobel 1917)
1857 - Sir Edward William Elgar, Broadheath England, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
1890 - Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry) (celebrity columnist; show biz gossip; radio commentator: The Hedda Hopper Show; hat collector; actress: Tarzan's Revenge, Maid's Night Out, Breakfast in Hollywood, Dracula's Daughter)
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer-actor (Tarzan)
1908 - Ben Grauer (announcer)
1917 - Max Showalter (actor: Racing with the Moon, Sixteen Candles)
1927 - Brock Peters, actor singer
1927 - Carl Butler (country entertainer, songwriter: Don't Let Me Cross Over, I Never Got Over You, Loving Arms, Just Thought I'd Let You Know)
1927 - Phillip Burton,
1929 - Chuck Barris (producer: Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Gong Show; songwriter: Palisades Park)
1930 - Charles Conrad Jr., astronaut (Gemini 5 11 Apollo 12 Skylab 2)
1932 - Sammy Turner (Samuel Black) (singer: Lavender-Blue, Always)
1933 - Barry Levinson (Academy Award-winning director: Rain Man [1988]; Disclosure, Jimmy Hollywood, Good Morning Viet Nam, The Natural, Toys, Diner, Bugsy, Avalon)
1933 - Jerry Lumpe (baseball: Kansas City, Detroit)
1937 or 1938 - Sally Kellerman (actress: M*A*S*H, Boris and Natasha, Back to School, The Boston Strangler, Brewster McCloud)
1940 - Jim Maloney (baseball)
1940 - King Constantine, of Greece
1941 - Charlie Watts (musician: drummer: group: Rolling Stones: Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Women)
1941 - Stacy Keach (actor: Mike Hammer, Conduct Unbecoming, Sunset Grill, Texas, Road Games, The Long Riders, Brewster McCloud)
1943 - Charles Haid (actor: Hill Street Blues, Delvecchio, Altered States, The Fire Next Time, Children in the Crossfire)
1944 - Garo Yepremian (football: Miami Dolphins kicker: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII)
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch (Academy Award-winning pianist, composer: for adapted score: The Sting [1973]; original score and song: The Way We Were [1973]; Grammy Award-winner: The Way We Were & Best New Artist; Tony Award-winner: A Chorus Line [1976])
1948 - Jerry Mathers (actor: Leave It to Beaver, The Trouble with Harry, Back to the Beach)
1950 - Lawrence McCutcheon (football: LA Rams running back: Super Bowl XIV)
1950 - Nate Williams (basketball)
1953 - Diana Canova (Rivero) (actress: Soap, I'm a Big Girl Now, Throb, Home Free, Night Partners, daughter of actress, Judy
Canova)
1955 - Dana Carvey (actor, comedian, impersonator: Saturday Night Live, Clean Slate, It Happened in Paradise, Wayne's World)
1955 - Gary Grimes (actor: Summer of '42, Class of '44, Culpepper Cattle Co.)
1572 - Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36
1882 - Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74
1927 - Lizzie Borden, accused ax murderer, dies at 68
1941 - Lou Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of ALS in Riverdale NY at 37
1990 - Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady), dies of cancer at 82
1990 - Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies
