Today In The Past
Events
860 – Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1682 – William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1812 – War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1815 – Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blucher
1873 – Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1898 – 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1900 – Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1928 – Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1940 – Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that “this was their finest hour”
1941 – Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing
1956 – Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
1959 – 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1960 – Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
1968 – Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1973 – NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1977 – Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 – Space Shuttle test model “Enterprise” carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1979 – Pres Carter & Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty
1981 – Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O’Connor, 1st woman on high court)
1982 – ABC’s All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
1985 – Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
Births
1839 – William Henry Seward Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1920
1886 – George Mallory, England, mountain climber (“because it is there“)
1906 – Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser’s Kollege)
1910 – E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope)
1917 – Richard Boone, LA California, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
1942 – Paul McCartney, Liverpool, English rocker & pop star (Beatles)
1952 – Isabella Rossellini, Rome Italy, actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet)
1976 – Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
1989 – Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
Deaths
1234 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1629 – Piet Heyn, lt-admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies in battle at 51
1788 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
1880 – John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77
1902 – Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66
1916 – Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed
1928 – Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies
1936 – Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1959 – Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), dies at 79
1967 – Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1974 – Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77
1984 – Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
2011 – Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
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