1306: Robert the Bruce becomes king of Scotland.
1584: Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit Virginia. And he took that ball and ran with it!
1807: The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.1897: John Laurie is born. He was in the 1954 British classic Devil Girl From Mars, which just happens to be shipping to me from Netflix today.
1911: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 garment workers. The horrible working conditions led to better factory safety standards.1911: Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, is born.
1918: Howard Cosell is born.
1920: Patrick Troughton is born. He played the second Doctor on Doctor Who.1928: Jim Lovell is born. He was the commander of Apollo 13.
1934: Gloria Steinem is born.
1942: Aretha Franklin is born.1947: Elton John is born.
1949:The Soviet Union forces more than 92,000 people from the Baltic states to remote areas of Siberia.1955: United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as being obscene.
1965: Civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete their four-day 50-mile march from Selma, AL to the capitol in Montgomery.1965: Sarah Jessica Parker is born.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. On Sundays, when I lie in bed until 10 am watching Mystery Science Theater, I like to pretend I'm really having a Bed-In for Peace.1979: The first fully functional space shuttle, the Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
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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