1775: The Battle of Lexington and Concord kick off the American Revolution.
1782: John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent nation and his house in The Hague becomes the first US embassy.
1862: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, MD attacks US Army troops starting the Baltimore riots.1903: Eliot Ness is born.
1927: Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1930: Dick Sargent is born. He is best known as the second Darren Stevens on Bewitched. He was also in the MST3K episode parts: the clonus horror.
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the US is abandoning the gold standard.1933: Jayne Mansfield is born.
1934: Shirley Temple makes her debut in Stand Up And Cheer. This is from The Littlest Rebel.1935: Dudley Moore is born.
1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.1946: Tim Curry is born.
1951: General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military. I couldn't find a video of the speech, so here's a scene from one of my favorite movies, John Ford's The Long Gray Line:1968: Ashley Judd is born. She played Wesley Crusher's gal-pal in the Star Trek: TNG episode "The Game."
1971: Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the Sharon Tate murders.
1976: Executive Order 9066, allowing for the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII is finally rescinded.1989: A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993: 81 people die when the FBI and ATF raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX.
1995: The Oklahoma City Bombing destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and kills 168.
Kind of a down note to end the post on, so here's a picture of Catherine Zeta Jones.
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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