1673 – First recorded wine auction held in London
1725 – 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty
1811 – Austria declares bankruptcy
1839 – Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1872 – Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 – Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
1877 – First cantilever bridge in the US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
1921 – Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1927 – Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1937 – First automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
1947 – Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles
1947 – State of Prussia ceases to exist
1950 – Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his first U.S. poetry reading tour
1962 – John Glenn is first American to orbit Earth in Friendship 7
1971 – Maj General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
1987 – Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
1988 – Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1992 – Ross Perot says he’ll run for President on Larry King Show
2013 – Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
2013 – Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered
Birthdays
1507 – Gentile Bellini, Italian artist
1899 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, founder (Pan Am Airways)
1902 – Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
1916 – Jackie Gleason, Brooklyn New York, comedian
1927 – Roy Cohn, lawyer,
1954 – Patty Hearst Shaw, famous kidnap hostage who took the name Tanya
Deaths
1790 – Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48
1895 – Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
1920 – Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63
1966 – Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80
1992 – Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63
1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura)
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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