1043: Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Although he was the first King Edward (in England) he is not Edward I. The second King Edward (Longshanks) is Edward I. It gets confusing.1783: Washington Irving is born.
1823: William Marcy Tweed, aka Boss Tweed is born. If you think politics is dirty today, you should read about Boss Tweed.
1860: The first successful Pony Express run from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, CA begins.1865: Union forces capture Richmond, VA.
1882: Jesse James is shot in the back of the head by Robert Ford for the $5,000 reward.
1898: Henry Luce, publisher of Time magazine and fervent anti-Communist is born.
1917: Vladimir Lenin is smuggled back into Russia to take command of the Bolshevik section of the Russian Revolution.
1924: Marlon Brando is born.
1924: Doris Day is born.
1926: Gus Grissom, astronaut is born.
1934: Jane Goodall is born. Here she is with Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.
1936: Bruno Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and murder of the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1942: Japanese forces begin an assault on US and Filipino troops on Bataan Peninsula.1946: Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed for leading the Bataan Death March.
1948: President Truman signs the Marshall Act which allocates more than $5 billion in aid for war-ravaged European countries.1953: TV Guide is first published.
1958: Alec Baldwin is born.
1959: David Hyde Pierce is born.
1961: Eddie Murphy is born.1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous "mountaintop" speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers less than 24 hours before he is assassinated.
1973: The first portable cell phone call is placed in New York City.
1982: Great Britain dispatches a naval task force to reclaim the Falkland Islands.
1996: Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is arrested in his Montana cabin.
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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