TODAY’S HISTORY
1864
The Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Wars begins
1880
1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains,
Memphis, Tennessee
1894
Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
1903
"Wizard of Oz" premieres in NYC
1908
NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in
public
1919
Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own
parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain,
sparking the Irish War of Independence
1932
USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
1941
1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941
Australian and British troops attack Tobruk, Libya
1944
447 German bombers attack London
1949
1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1952
Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1960
Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1965
Iranian premier Hassan Ali Mansur assassinated by
17-year-old Mohammad Bokharaei
1967
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1968
US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in
Greenland
1972
Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union
territory
1972
Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India
1977
US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War
draft evaders
1981
"Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New
York City for 54 performances
1985
Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1987
B.B. King donates his 7,000 record collection to the
University of Mississippi
1988
US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1993
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1997
An inquiry in North Wales names more than 80 child abusers
1999
In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the US
Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying 4,300 kg of cocaine
2002
The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar
2008
Black Monday in worldwide stock mark
2008
The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last
native speaker dies.
2013
1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9
earthquake in Indonesia
2017
More than 2 million people
protest worldwide against US President Donald Trump
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1815
John Bingham, American
politician and lawyer
1827
Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin,
Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1840
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake,
Hastings, English Physician and feminist who was one of the first female
medical students at a British university
1883
Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet
1897
J Carrol Naish, American act
1906
Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer
1917
Rohan Butler, historian
1920
Donald Cuthbert Coleman, British economic historian (d.
1995)
1922
Paul Scofield, English actor (A Man for All Seasons, Train),
born in Hurst, England (d. 2008)
1927
Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer
1940
Jack Nicklaus, golfer, Columbus
1951
Eric Holder, 82nd Attorney General of the United States
1953
Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft,
born in Seattle, Washington
1957
Shaukat Dukanwala, cricketer (Baroda off-spinner, UAE World
Cup 1996)
1967
Ulf Stenlund, Sweden, tennis star
1972
Shelley Looney, ice hockey forward
1975
Nicky Butt, English footballer
1979
Kelly Gaudet, Miss Florida Teen USA (1996)
1981
Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer
1981
Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1983
Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian model and professional
wrestler
1990
Jacob Smith, American actor
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