238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1713 – The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization. When Europeans arrived in the area known today as North Carolina in 1653, the Tuscarora, the Native Americans there generally co-existed in peace with them. However this lasted only about 50 years before the Europeans increasingly encroached upon their lands, raided their villages to take slaves and introduced epidemic diseases that brought about their defeat. After this, a large majority of the Tuscarora migrated north to join the Iroquois and they became accepted as the sixth nation of the Iroquois Confederacy
1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1829 – In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
1982 – NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
Russian test pilot
Yevgeny Ostashev
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1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
Births
1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449)
1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
1785 – Adam Sedgwick, English scientist (d. 1873) Here’s a link to an interesting letter he wrote to Charles Darwin,commenting about his Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection
1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor, most famous for his stage persona as “Bip the Clown”. He referred to mime as the “art of silence”, and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years.
1924 – Al Neuharth, founded USA Today (d. 2013)
1924 – Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (d. 1960)
1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and songwriter
1948 – Wolf Blitzer, American journalist
1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer and director
Deaths
1454 – John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer and conductor (b. 1632)
1974 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
2001 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1910)