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1571: Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits.
1773: English engineer George Cayley, father of the science of
aerodynamics
1822: Scientist Louis Pasteur in Dole, France. He developed the
pasteurization process and rabies vaccination.
1829: Hinton Helper, southern abolitionist who wrote The Impending
Crisis.
1879: Actor Sydney Greenstreet (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Across
the Pacific, Passage to Marseilles, Malaya)
1901: Actress Marlene (Maria von Losch) Dietrich (The Blue Angel,
Morocco, Kismet, Destry Rides Again, Judgment at Nuremberg, Witness for the Prosecution)
1911: Comedienne Anna Russell
1915: Physician William H. Masters (Human Sexual Response, On Sex and
Human Loving)
1916: Actor and musician Oscar Levant (An American in Paris, The
Bandwagon, Romance on the High Seas)
1926: Child psychologist Lee Salk
1932: Actress Inga Swenson
1933: PGA golf champion Dave Marr
1935: Fashion and perfume designer Bernard Lanvin
1940: Jockey Jerry Lambert
1941: Actor John Amos (Good Times, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Coming to
America, Future Cop)
1941: Baseball player Phil Gagliano
1943: ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts
1943: Baseball player Roy White
1944: Singer Tracy Nelson
1947: Football player Bob McKay
1948: Actor Gerard Depardieu (A Pure Formality, My Father the Hero,
Cyrano deBergerac, Jean DeFlorette, The Return of Martin Guerre, Tartuffe, Choice of Arms,
Loulou, Going Places, The Holes)
1949: Musician and singer David Knopfler
1952: Singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff
1952: Rock musician David Knopfler (Dire Straits)
1952: Actress Tovah Feldshuh (Holocaust, The Triangle Factory Fire
Scandal, Brewsters Millions, Blue Iguana, A Day in October)
1952: Baseball pitcher Craig Reynolds
1953: Broadcast journalist Arthur Kent
1962: Country musician Jeff Bryant (Ricochet)
1972: Musician Matt Slocum (Six Pence None The Richer)
1973: Singer Olu
1973: Actor Wilson Cruz ("My So-Called Life")
0388: Death of St. Fabiola
0537: Justinian dedicates Hagia Sophia
1253: William of Rubruck and Bartholomew of Cremona arrive
at the Court of Mangu Khan of the Mongols
1512: The laws of Burgos give New World natives legal
protection against abuse and authorize Negro slavery.
1558: Queen Elizabeth of England issues a Proclaimation
forbidding any other kind of worship other that that used at the close of the reign of
Henry VIII
1585: Death of Pierre de Ronsard, poet
1587: Coronation of Sigsimund III as King of Poland
1831: Naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the
Pacific aboard the HMS "Beagle." (Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped
formed the basis of his humorous theories on evolution.)
1845: Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for
childbirth for the first time, when he delivered his own child in Jefferson, Georgia.
1875: Wagner dreamed that the Queen of Prussia was his
mother.
1900: Militant prohibitionist Carry Nation carried out her
first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas.
1900: The New York Tribune published a review of Puccini's
new opera. "Silly and inconsequential incidents and dialogues," the Tribune
critic reported speaking of "La Boheme."
1903: The barbershop quartet favorite, "Sweet
Adeline", was sung for the first time -- in New York City. The song was composed by
Henry Armstrong with the words of Richard Gerard. The title of the song came from a
theatre marquee that promoted the great operatic soprano, Adelina Patti.
1913: Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is
shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago.
1915: In Ohio, iron and steel workers go on strike for an
eight hour day and higher wages.
1927: The musical play "Show Boat," with music
by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein the Second, opened at the Ziegfeld
Theater in New York.
1932: Radio City Music Hall opened in New York. It was the
largest indoor theatre in the world. The gala grand opening show was a six-hour
extravaganza that lost half a million dollars within three weeks.
1939: Vicious earthquakes take 11,000 lives in Turkey.
1939: "The Glenn Miller Show", also known as
"Music that Satisfies", started on CBS radio. The 15-minute, twice-a-week show
was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes and was heard for nearly three years.
1940: Singer Al Jolson and actress Ruby Keeler were
divorced after 12 years of marriage.
1941: Japanese war planes bombed Manila in the
Philippines, even though it had been declared an "open city."
1944: Amy Beach died. She was the first woman in the
United States to have a symphony performed, and it is still performed to this day.
1945: 28 nations signed an agreement creating the World
Bank.
1945: Foreign ministers of Britain, the
United States and the Soviet Union agree on a plan to take over Korea for
five years.
1946: The American team won the Davis Cup for the first
time since 1938.
1947: The children's television program "Howdy
Doody," hosted by Bob Smith, made its debut on NBC. It showed under the title
"Puppet Playhouse." It was aired for 13 years.
1949: Indonesia attains independence from
the Netherlands.
1951: A Crosley automobile, with a steering wheel on the
right side, became the first such vehicle placed in service for mail delivery. It was used
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1956: Segregation on Tallahassee, Florida buses is
outlawed.
1968: The U.S. agrees to sell fifty F-4 Phantom jets to
Israel.
1968: "Apollo Eight" and its three astronauts
made a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific.
1968: "The Breakfast Club" signed off for the
last time on ABC radio, after 35 years on the air.
1969: Libya, Sudan and the United Arab
Republic announce a political, economic and military agreement in Tripoli.
1970: "Hello, Dolly!" closed on Broadway after a
run of 2,844 performances.
1971: Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock of
Charles Schulz famous "Peanuts"
comic strip made the cover of "Newsweek" magazine.
1972: Death of Lester B. Pearson (born
1897), Canadian statesman and prime minister from 1963-68. He wins the Nobel
Peace Price in 1957 for his efforts to resolve the Suez Crisis in 1956.
1979: Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan.
President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal.
1983: President Reagan takes all responsibility for the
lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241
Marines.
1984: Four Polish officers are tried for the slaying of
Reverend Jerzy Popieluszko.
1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was the
woman most admired by the American people, according to a Gallup Poll. It marked the third
consecutive year that the Iron Lady received that honor.
1985: Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome
and Vienna airports; a total of twenty people were killed, including five of the
attackers, who were slain by police and security personnel.
1986: Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines, was
named "TIME" magazines Man of the Year. The only other women who had been
so named were Queen Elizabeth II in 1952; and the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield
Simpson, in 1936.
1987: Scores of Palestinian prisoners appeared before
Israeli military courts in the first trials of several hundred protesters arrested in the
"intefadeh," or uprising, in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1988: Hundreds of residents of Lockerbie, Scotland, paid
silent tribute to five of the Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as
coffins containing the victims' remains began their journey home.
1989: President Bush, on a visit to Beeville, Texas, told
a gathering he was determined to bring deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to justice
"for poisoning the children of the United States" with illegal drugs.
1989: Romania’s National Salvation Front
names a new government headed by President Ion Iliescu, a day after
announcing the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu.
1990: The government reported that orders to manufacturers for "big ticket" durable goods plummeted ten and a-half percent the previous month.
1990: Gennady I. Yanayev was approved as the Soviet Union's first vice president on the last day of a stormy, ten-day session of the Congress of People's Deputies.
1992: The United States shot down an Iraqi fighter jet
during what the Pentagon described as a confrontation between a pair of Iraqi warplanes
and US F-16 jets in UN-restricted airspace over southern Iraq.
1993: US officials said that Strobe Talbott, who had
served as the Clinton administration's chief Russia policy architect, would take over the
number-two spot at the State Department.
1996: In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, about 60,000 opposition
supporters defied riot police and rallied in celebration of an international report
backing their triumph over Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in recent local elections.
1994: Four Roman Catholic priests three French and
a Belgian were shot to death in their rectory in Algiers, a day after French
commandos killed four radicals who had hijacked an Air France jet from Algiers to
Marseille.
1995: Israeli jeeps sped out of the West Bank town of Ramallah, capping a seven-week pullout giving Yasser Arafat control over 90 percent of the West Bank's one million Palestinian residents and one-third of its land.
1995:Death of Ukraine-born Shura Cherkassky,
one of the world’s last great romantic pianists. — VNS/REUTERS/AP
1997: Billy Wright, Northern Ireland's most notorious
Protestant militant, was shot to death by three members of the Irish National Liberation
Army at the Maze Prison outside Belfast.
1998: A week after she was born weighing just
ten-point-three ounces, the smallest of the Houston octuplets (Chijindu Chidera) died from
heart and lung failure.
1998: Six inmates, including four convicted killers,
escaped from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Tennessee (all were recaptured by
the end of next day).
1999: Space shuttle "Discovery" and its seven-member crew returned to Earth after fixing the Hubble Space Telescope.
1999: Former television executive Leonard H. Goldenson, who'd built ABC into a network powerhouse, died in Longboat Key, Florida, at age 94.
1999:
Death of Curtis Mayfield, a prolific composer and singer whose songs evoked
the struggle of African Americans. He was 57. VNS/REUTERS/AP
2000 - Mario Lemeiux of the Pittsburgh
Penguins returned to the National Hockey League as a player after over 3
years of retirement. He was the first owner-player in the modern era of pro
sports. Lemieux had purchased the Pittsburgh Penguins during his retirement
from playing.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush granted
China permanent normal trade status with the United States.
2001: U.S. officials announced that Taliban
and al-Qaida prisoners would be held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba.
2001: President Bush extended permanent
normal trade status to China.
2001: India and Pakistan engaged in diplomatic tit-for-tat, ordering half of each other's embassy staffs sent home and banning overflights by each other's national airlines.
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