1542: Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, is executed for adultery. She's kind of the Shemp of Henry's wives. She's nobody's favorite and most people don't remember her.
1633: Gallileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.1668: Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1689: William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692: In what came to be known as the Massacre of Glencoe, about 78 members of the MacDonald clad in Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to William of Orange. The rest of the clan was burned out of their houses and stampeded into a howling blizzard in their bedclothes.
Glen Coe, Scotland.
1866: Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery during peace time in the US.1885: Bess Truman, First Lady, is born.
1891: Grant Wood is born.
1894: Auguste and Louis Lumiere patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
1919: Tennessee Ernie Ford is born.1923: Chuck Yeager is born. The guy's 85 years old and he could still beat me like a rented mule.
1932: Susan Oliver is born. She played Vina in the original pilot of Star Trek: TOS "The Menagerie" which was later reworked into "The Cage." She played, among other characters, the famous green-skinned Orion slave girl.
1933: Kim Novak is born. After Grace Kelly broke Hitchcock's heart by running off to become a princess, Kim Novak became his new blond ice queen.
1933: Caroline Blakiston is born. She played rebel leader Mon Mothma in the Star Wars movies.
1934: George Segal is born.1935: Bruno Hauptmann is found guilty of the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1937: Oliver Reed is born. He would disagree with Dean Wormer, if you know what I mean.
1942: Peter Tork, of the Monkees is born.
1944; Stockard Channing is born. She played Betty Rizzo in Grease and Kitty Baxter in my all-time favorite giant bus disaster move The Big Bus.
1944: Jerry Springer is born.
1944: Bo Svenson is born. He played the extremely stupid explorer who matches wits with Donald Pleasance in Gold of the Amazon Women.
1945: The infamous Dresden bombing takes place. It would have the effect of unleashing Kurt Vonnegut on an unprepared world.
1949: Jack Webb's first radio crime drama Pat Novak For Hire airs.
1950: Peter Gabriel is born.
1951: David Naughton is born. He was the guy who wanted to buy the world a Coke back in the '70s, but he was also great in An American Werewolf in London.
1961: Henry Rollins is born. He was the second lead singer for punk band Black Flag. He's generally pretty ticked off.
1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is exiled from the Soviet Union.
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
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