1431: Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.1496: Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. This would have the ripple effect of causing one of the most excruciating Star Trek: Voyager plotlines ever.
1521: Martin Luther is excommunicated.
1710: Richard Gridley is born. The US Army Corps of Engineers considers him America's First Chief Engineer.
1749: Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1777: The British lose the Battle of Princeton.1841: Herman Melville sets sail aboard the whaler Acushnet.
1861: Delaware votes not to secede from the US.
1870: The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
1871: Henry W. Bradley patents oleomargarine.1879: Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States is born.
Even First Ladies love dog dancing!1888: Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw.
1892: J.R.R. Tolkien is born.
1905: Ray Milland is born.
1909: Victor Borge is born.
1911: John Sturges is born. He directed The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Gunfight at the OK Corral, among others. He did manly movies for manly men.
1922: Bill Travers is born. He was in the MST3K episode Gorgo.
1924: Howard C. Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
1925: Mussolini takes control of Italy.1926: George Martin is born. He produced almost all of The Beatles' records.
1930: Robert Loggia is born. I love this orange juice commercial he did:
1932: Dabney Coleman is born.
1944: Pappy Boyington is shot down in his Corsair.
1945: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all US Naval forces in preparation for the planned assaults on Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan itself.1945: Stephen Stills, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is born.
1946: John Paul Jones, of Led Zeppelin is born.
1946: Lord Haw-Haw is executed.
1950: Victoria Principal is born.
1951: Dragnet is broadcast for the first time on TV.1956: Mel Gibson is born.
1959: Alaska is admitted as the 49th state.
1961: The US severs diplomatic ties with Cuba.
1962: Fidel Castro is excommunicated. I wonder who the last person to be excommunicated was?
1967: Jack Ruby dies.
1973: A date which will live in infamy: George Steinbrenner buys the New York Yankees from CBS for 3.2 million dollars.
1975: Danica McKellar is born. She played Winnie on The Wonder Years. She's also some kind of genius mathematician too. She's only two years younger than me, so now I don't feel like such a filthy letch.
1977: Apple Computer is incorporated.1993: Johnny Most, announcer for the Celtics dies.
2000: The last new Peanuts comic strip runs.
2005: Will Eisner, comic book artist dies.
Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up
1 comment:
Who knew this was such a big day for The Green Mountain state? And I loved the Robert Loggia commercial. I've never seen it before. Hard to imagine that Vicki Principal and I were born the same year. The years have obviously been a lot kinder to her!
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