1429 – Joan of Arc arrives at the seige of Orleans 1623 – 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru 1715 – John Flamsteed observes Uranus for sixth time 1784 – Premiere of Mozart’s Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
1834 – Charles Darwin’s expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia 1852 – First edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus published 1894 – Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey’s Army) arrives in Washington, DC, 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol 1927 – Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed 1930 – Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service 1945 – US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 1946 – 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals 1971 – Bill Graham closes down Fillmore West and Fillmore East 1974 – President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1990 – Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate 1991 – Croatia declares independence 1992 – Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin 1995 – Longest sausage ever, at 28.77 miles, made in Kitchener, Ontario 2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. Birthdays 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, San Francisco California, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I) 1899 – Duke Ellington, Washington, District of Columbia, American bandleader, composer and pianist (Take the A Train)
1901 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89) 1936 – Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic) 1951 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001) 1954 – Jerome ‘Jerry’ Seinfeld, Brooklyn New York, comedian/actor (‘Seinfeld‘) 1970 – Andre Agassi, Las Vegas Nev, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994) Deaths 1864 – Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon’s theorem), dies at 80 1980 – Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 |
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