1645: William Kidd, Scottish pirate and privateer is born.1708: James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. He was the son of King James II of England who had been deposed during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and claimed the thrones of Scotland, England and Ireland.
1775: Patrick Henry delivers his famous "give me liberty or give me death" speech at St. John's Church in Richmond, VA.
1801: Tsar Paul I of Russia is stabbed, strangled and trampled to death in his bedroom.1806: After reaching the Pacific Ocean, Lewis and Clark begin their journey home.
1857: Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway in New York City.
1905: Joan Crawford is born. Man, those eyebrows chase me through my nightmares.
1915: Valisy Zaitsev is born. He's the sniper whose life was portrayed in the movie Enemy at the Gates. His verified kills were 225, but some say it might be as high as 400.
1933: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.1949: Ric Ocasek, singer for The Cars, is born.
1950: Anthony De Longis is born. He played the wicked Maje Culluh on Star Trek: Voyager, but he's also the stunt man who taught Harrison Ford how to use a bull whip for the Indiana Jones movies.
1957: Amanda Plummer is born. She was in The Fisher King and Pulp Fiction.
1962: The NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as part of Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace plan.
1983: Ronald Reagan makes his speech outlining his plans for the Strategic Defense Initiative1989: Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce could fusion at the University of Utah.
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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