TODAY’S HISTORY
1641
United East Indian Company conquers city of Malacca, 7,000
killed
1822
Greek War of Independence
1864
General Sherman begins his march to the South
1878
US Supreme court rules race separation on trains
unconstitutional
1914
The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement is reached between Gen. J.C.
Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, regarding voluntary registration, poll tax,
recognition of Indian marriages and other matters
1935
Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use
1938
National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
1942
Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1943
World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke
1943
World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to
Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president
to travel by airplane
1949
Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1953
Yugoslavia elects its 1st president (Marshal Tito)
1960
US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1966
David Bowie releases his 1st single "Can't Help
Thinking About Me"
1969
25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during
maneuvers
1975
USSR breaks trade agreement with US
1976
Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
1979
US President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King's
birthday be a holiday
1986
Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1989
1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic
Verses" in Bradford, England
1995
10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
1999
Mel Lastman, Mayor of Toronto, calls in the Army to help
with snow removal and emergency medical evacuations after major snowstorm hits
the city
2004
The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross
flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years
2005
Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan
2010
Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda
2012
Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
2015
63 people are killed & 70,000 are left homeless after
floods devastate Mozambique and Malawi
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1741
Benedict Arnold, Norwich Connecticut, US general turned
traitor
1804
John Park, Scottish composer and minister, born in Greenock,
Renfrewshire, (d. 1865)
1824
Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
1857
Alice Pike Barney, American painter
1870
Sir George Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1952)
1892
Martin Niemöller, clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned
by Hitler
1911
Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
1920
Donald Beard, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the 1950's)
1926
Tom Tryon, actor (Cardinal, All That Glitters), born in
Hartford, Connecticut
1926
Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us
Do Part), born in London (d. 2015)
1926
Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali writer and activist, born in
Dhaka, British India (d. 2016)
1927
Ivan Kalita, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1968)
1936
Ludmila Pinayeva, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968,
1972)
1942
Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician
1963
Steven Soderbergh, American producer, director, writer
(Ocean's Eleven, Traffic), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1964
Ernest Miller, American wrestler
1969
Martin Bicknell, cricketer (England pace bowler 1993)
1974
Nancy Napolski, Hinsdale Idaho, air rifle (Olympics-1996)
1980
Clive Clarke, Irish footballer
1988
Jordy [Lemoine], French singer, youngest singer (4 years) to
have a #1, born in Paris
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