1613: Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty.1804: The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its first run at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.
1842: John Greenough is granted the first US patent for a sewing machine.
1848: Karl Marx and Frederich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
1878: The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, CT. It had 50 listings.
1885: The Washington Monument is dedicated.
1893: Andres Segovia is born. He helped establish the guitar as a legitimate classical instrument.1915: Ann Sheridan is born. She was in a ton of movies, but I remember her in an uncredited cameo in Treasure of the Sierra Madre as the prostitute who gives Bogie the eye after he gets a haircut.
1916: During WWI, the Battle of Verdun begins. More than a quarter of a million people would die.1918: The last Carolina parakeet dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1925: The New Yorker publishes its first issue.1925: Sam Peckinpah is born. He directed The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs.
1927: Erma Bombeck is born.
1929: Roberto Gomez Bolanos is born. He played the title character in the Mexican sitcom El Chavo about a homeless boy who lives in a rain barrel in a slum of Mexico City. As he was 44 when he first assayed the role of an eight-year old homeless kid, the show was...odd.
1937: Gary Lockwood is born. He is best known for playing Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he also played Gary Mitchell in the second Star Trek pilot Where No Man Has Gone Before and was the hero of the MST3K episode The Magic Sword.
1943: David Geffen is born.1944: Rue McClanahan, the sassy Southern matron on The Golden Girls, is born.
1945: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.
1946: Anthony Daniels is born. He played C-3PO.
1946: Alan Rickman is born.
1953: Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
1955: Kelsey Grammer is born.
1958: The Peace Symbol is designed by Gerald Holtom.
1958: Mary Chapin Carpenter is born.1960: Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.
1961: Christopher Atkins is born. He played the oily bohunk who hangs out with (and deflowers) Brooke Shields on that island in The Blue Lagoon.
A little something for the ladies!
1962: Chuck Palahniuk is born. He wrote the love letter to terrorism Fight Club.1965: Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1972: President Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize relations.1979: Jennifer Love Hewitt is born.
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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