Today in the Past
Events
1217 - French prince Louis & English king Henry III sign peace treaty
1396 - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis
1624 - 1st submarine tested (London)
1683 - Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski
1695 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
1759 - British soldiers capture the town of Quebec.
1776 - Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
1847 - Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1862 - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
1895 - Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (Engld) in 10th America’s Cup
1901 - Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
1907 - Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
1910 - World’s 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
1928 - -17] Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000
1934 - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
1935 - Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
1940 - 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
1940 - 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1943 - Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso
1944 - US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time
1953 - Sen John F Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24
1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
1964 - 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
1965 - Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
1966 - ”Monkees” premieres on NBC-TV
1966 - Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
1970 - 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
1970 - US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1972 - Ciod War: Icelandic gunboats sink 2 British trawlers in North Sea
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
1983 - Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
1988 - Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
1994 - Cessna crashes in White House front yard
1994 - Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
1995 - Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.
2001 - Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for only the second time (the other being in Bosnia) in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
2005 - Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
Births
1575 - Henry Hudson, England, navigator/explorer (Hudson River)
1806 - Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1863
1811 - James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY)
1812 - Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
1818 - Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
1880 - Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)
1892 - Alfred A Knopf, US, publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal)
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [OS]
1913 - Jesse Owens, track star, spoiled Hitler’s 1936 Olympics with 4 gold
1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
1925 - Dickie Moore, LA California, actor (Expert, Oliver Twist, Little Men)
Stymie Teaches Dickie A Fact Of Life
Stymie Performs First Chiropractic Adjustment
1931 - George Jones, Saratoga Tx, singer (Golden Rings, Oh Lonesome Me)
1934 - Gunther Gebel-Williams, lion tamer (Ringling Bros Circus)
1943 - Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, NY, singer (Midnight at the Oasis)
1952 - Neil Peart, Canada, musician and drummer (Rush-A Farewell to Kings)
1954 - Peter Scolari, New Rochelle NY, actor (Jerry-Newhart, Bosom Buddies
1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
1974 - Jennifer Nettles, American country singer, part of Sugarland
The Night the Lights went out in Georgia
1981 - Jennifer Hudson, Chicago, Illinois, American actress and singer (Dreamgirls, Jennifer Hudson)
Deaths
352 - Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies
1213 - Pedro II, [el Catolico], king of Aragon, dies in battle
1591 - Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49
1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
1973 - Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86
1977 - Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody
1993 - Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76
2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
2009 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
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