1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th-13th.
1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guiltyof the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1975 – Fire at the World Trade Center in New York.
1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe’s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star “Lucy” after The Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2017 – Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Births
1523 – Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1593)
1885 – Bess Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
1910 – William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
1923 – Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier
Deaths
1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1500)
1883 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
2016 – Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1936)
This list is compiled from many internet and other sources of information including wikipedia, the New York Times, a multitude of websites and old books.
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