1556: The Archbishop of Canterbury and co-founder of the Anglican Church, Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake by Queen Mary I ("Bloody Mary") for heresy.1685: Johann Sebastian Bach is born.
1800: With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of paper mache.
1804: The Napoleonic Code is adopted as French civil law.
1844: The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1871: Otto von Bismarck is appointed chancellor of the German Empire.
1902: Son House, bluesman, is born.1922: Russ Meyer is born. He directed the classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
1946: Timothy Dalton is born. I thought he made a pretty good Bond.
1949: Eddie Money is born.1952: Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, OH.
1958: Gary Oldman is born. He's one of my favorite actors and even managed to make the Lost in Space movie less of a turd.
1962: Matthew Broderick is born.
1962: Rosie O'Donnell is born.
1963: Alcatraz closes.1970: Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski jump competition in Germany. His image would become infamous as the "agony of defeat guy" on the ABC Wide World of Sports.
1980: President Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1980: On the season finale of Dallas J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant.
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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