Today in the Past
Events
70 - Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire
1588 - Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada
1609 - Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei’s telescope
1673 - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC
1709 - 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1786 - Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
1854 - Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
1870 - Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America’s Cup
1876 - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1937 - Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1942 - ”Monty” appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
1942 - 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
1945 - Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
1963 - Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
1963 - Kingsmen release “Louie, Louie,” radio stations label it obscene
1968 - Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres
1984 - Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
1988 - Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
2007 - An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889
Births
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1763 - Charles Bulfinch, Boston Mass, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House)
1835 - James William Forsyth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
1879 - Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wash DC, writer (Yearling
1902 - Paul Dirac, Bristol, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933), (d. 1984)
1907 - Benny Carter, NYC, musician/composer (Easy Money, King Carter)
1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Torre Annunziata Italy, producer (King Kong)
1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
1923 - Esther Williams, Inglewood Cal, actress/swimmer (Dangerous when Wet)
1933 - Joe Tex, singer/songwriter (Hold What You’ve Got)
1942 - Jay David, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
1954 - Nigel Mansell, formula-1 racer (Portugal Grand Prix-1990)
1981 - Roger Federer, Basel Switzerland, tennis player (16 grand slams)
Deaths
869 - Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies
1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
1788 - Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92
1969 - Sharon Tate, murdered by the Manson family at 26
1975 - Julian “Cannonball” Alderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies of a stroke at 46
1976 - John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered
1988 - Alan Napier, actor (Alfred-Batman), dies at 85
1996 - Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89
2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
2008 – Richard B Herrlin , Father , Husband , Businessman , Community Leader , The Best
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