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| On this day in history .. |
- 1566 - French astrologer physician & prophet Nostradamus dies in Salon
- 1644 - Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.
- 1644 - William Gascoigne introducer of telescopic sights is killed at 24
- 1776 - Continental Congress passes resolution saying `these United Colonies Care & of right ought to be Free & Independent States'
- 1858 - partial emancipation of Russian serfs.
- 1881 - Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker Garfield died the following September
- 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
- 1900 - 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
- 1906 - Yanks win by forfeit for their 1st time
- 1926 - US Army Air Corps created
- 1933 - Carl Hubbell shutsout Cards 1-0 in 18 innings
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
- 1941 - DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
- 1955 - Lawrence Welk Show premiers on ABC television
- 1957 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
- 1957 - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched Grayback
- 1961 - Maris hits his 29th & 30th of 61 homers
- 1961 - Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death in Ketchum Idaho
- 1964 - Pres Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
- 1976 - Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
- 1977 - Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
- 1978 - Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
- 1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
- 1985 - Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
- 1986 - The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings
- 1987 - Chorus Line Director Michael Bennet dead of aids at 44
- 1987 - Accused Nazi Karl Linnas died of heart failure in Russia
| Famous birthdays for this day .. |
- 0419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
- 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop reformer martyr.
- 1821 - Sir Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian prime minister (1896).
- 1877 - Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
- 1903 - Olav V, king of Norway (1957- ).
- 1903 - Sir Alex Douglas-Home, (C) British prime minister (1963-64).
- 1906 - Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967) peace worker.
- 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st black Supreme Court justice.
- 1922 - Dan Rowan, comedian (Laugh In).
- 1927 - Brock Peters, actor.
- 1931 - Emelda Marcos, Former Phillipine leader's wife
- 1935 - Kaye Stevens, in Pitts
- 1937 - Richard Petty, auto race driver.
- 1937 - Polly Holliday, (Alice)
- 1940 - Georgi Ivan Ivanov, 1st Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33).
- 1947 - Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, Daughter of Pres LBJ
- 1951 - Cheryl Ladd, in SD
- 1961 - Jimmy McNichol, Actor
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