1535: Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.1777: Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
1778: James Cook becomes the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands.
1782: Daniel Webster is born.
1813: Joseph Glidden, inventor of barbed wire, is born.
1861: Georgia secedes from the Union.
1882: A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, is born.
1903: Teddy Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII of England. It is the first transatlantic radio message originating in the US.
1904: Cary Grant is born.
1911: Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. It is the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
1913: Danny Kaye is born.1922: Bob Bell is born. He was the first Bozo the Clown.
1919: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.1919: Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1933: John Boorman is born. He directed the laughably stupid Exorcist II: The Heretic and the stupidly laughable Zardoz.
1936: Rudyard Kipling dies.
1944: Soviet forces end the Siege of Leningrad.
1952: Curly Howard dies.
1955: Kevin Costner is born. I'm one of the few people in the world who enjoyed The Postman.1962: Allison Arngrim is born. She played the wicked Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. I had a huge crush on her when I was kid. Everyone else loved Melissa Gilbert - I loved Nellie.
1965: Dave Attell is born. He used to host Insomniac on Comedy Central.1977: Scientists identify the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease.
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