1628: King Charles I of England issues a writ mandating that every county in England (even inland ones) must pay the ship tax. It sounds crazy to us now, but counties that didn't have a coast didn't think that they should have to pay for the upkeep of the navy even though that navy was defending them too. This controversy, and the fact that Chucky I was levying taxes without Parliament's consent led directly to the English Civil War and Chucky getting his head cut off.
1642: Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, ME) becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
1692: The Salem Witch Trials get underway as Sarah Good, Sarah Osbourn and the servant Tituba are brought before local magistrates.
1781: The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1790: The first US census is authorized.
1803: Ohio is admitted as the 17th state.
1805: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the US Senate. He was a staunch Federalist and he was accused of letting his politics affect his judgments.
1845: President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the US to annex the Republic of Texas.1867: Nebraska is admitted as the 37th state.
1873: E. Remington & Sons begin production of the first practical typewriter.
1904: Glen Miller is born.
1910: David Niven is born.
1912: Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving plane.1914: Harry Caray is born. Holy cow!
1918: Roger Delgado is born. He was the first guy to play the wicked Master on Doctor Who.
1926: Robert Clary is born. He is most famous for playing LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes but he is also a Holocaust survivor.
1927: Harry Belafonte is born.1932: The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped.
1935: Robert Conrad is born. He is best known for playing James West on Wild Wild West, but he also played Pappy Boyington on Black Sheep Squadron.
1936: The Hoover Dam is completed.
1944: Roger Daltrey is born. He is most famous for being in The Who, but he was also the evil head vampire in the godawful Vampirella.1945: Dirk Benedict, of The A-Team and the original Battlestar Galactica is born.
1946: Lana Wood is born. She played Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds are Forever.
1953: Joseph Stalin suffers a severe stroke and collapses.1954: Catherince Bach is born. She played the winsome Daisy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard.
1954: Puerto Rican nationalists attack the US Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.1956: Timothy Daly is born. He is best known for playing the tidy brother on Wings but he also did the voice of Superman/Clark Kent in Superman: TAS.
1961: President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1966: The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
1971: A bomb explodes in a men's room in the US Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
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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