1637: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under German Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut massacring 500.1647: Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, CT.
1799: Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author, is born.
1828: The mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremburg.
1830: The US Congress passes the Indian Removal Act.1886: Al Jolsen is born.
1889: The Eiffel Tower's elevator opens to the public.
1896: Nicholas II becomes the Tsar of Russia.
1896: Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The average price for the day was 40.94.
1907: John Wayne is born. Here's the great diner confrontation scene in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. I love the way he nonchalantly kicks the guy in the head.1908: The first oil strike in the Middle East takes place as a gusher is hit in present-day Iran.
1913: Peter Cushing is born. Most people of my generation remember him best as grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars but he also played Val Helsing in most of the 60's-era Hammer Dracula movies and the two Doctor Who movies. Here's an except of all his scenes from Star Wars.
1940: The Dunkirk evacuation begins.
1920: Miss Peggy Lee is born.1938: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1949: Pam Grier is born. She kicked honkey ass in some of the best 70's blaxploitation movies like Black Mama, White Mama, Scream, Blacula, Scream, Coffy and Foxy Brown. Here she is in the lesbian bar fight scene in Foxy Brown.:
1962: Bobcat Goldthwait. His film Shakes the Clown is an under appreciated American classic.
1970: The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1971: Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park, is born.1972: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977: Human fly George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center. He was fined $1.10, one cent for each of the 110 floors of the WTC by mayor Abraham Beame.
1998: The US Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
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