1645: During the English Civil War, at the Battle of Naseby, the Parliamentarian New Model Army under the command of Oliver Cromwell defeats the Royalist army commanded by Prince Rupert (and his dog, Boy) it what would wind up being the turning point to the war.
1777: Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States. Is this wrong?
1777: Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States. Is this wrong?
God bless America!
1789: Whiskey distilled from corn is first produced by the Reverend Elijah Craig. It is called Bourbon because Reverend Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.1906: Margaret Bourke White, photojournalist, is born.
1909: Burl Ives is born. Here's "Little Bitty Tear" which was always one of my favorites. I'm not quite sure what's going on in the video. I figure the guy working the camera broke up with the girl (who is clearly not following the Motorcycle Safety Foundation rules) and this his way of working it out.1919: Sam Wanamaker is born. He's been a working actor for years, but these days he's best known for being the spearhead in the rebuilding of Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London.
1921: Gene Barry is born. He played the manful hero Dr. Clayton Forrester in the 1953 version of War of the Worlds.1922: Warren G. Harding becomes the first US President to be heard on radio.
1925: Pierre Salinger, JFK's Press Secretary, is born.
1928: Che Guevara is born. Finding a picture of him that isn't the usual iconic image took a little doing. Here is is at 22 in 1951.
1931: Marla Gibbs is born. She played the wisecracking maid Florence Johnston on The Jeffersons.1932: Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ is born. He's known for being tough on prisoners. He's from Springfield, Massachusetts!
1938: Action Comics # 1 is released, featuring the debut of Superman.
1940: A group of 720 Polish political prisoners become the first residents of Auschwitz.1940: German troops enter Paris.
1941: Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begins.
1945: Rod Argent of The Zombies is born.
1946: Donald Trump is born. He's rich, but unloved.
1949: Harry Turtledove is born. He is securely nestled in the alternate history genre. The first two or three books of any of his series are good, but soon you will feel like you're wasting your time. Make sure you skip over any of his sex scenes too, unless you have a fetish for overly clinical descriptions that border on the grotesque.
1951: UNIVAC 1 is dedicated by the US Census Bureau.
1952: The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1954: President Eisenhower signs a bill that places the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.1961: Boy George is born. This video makes no sense. Why is Boy George in the Reconstruction South? Is this a Harry Turtledove-esque alternate time line where Boy George prevents the military government of Mississippi from peacefully handing over power to the civilian government? It's maddening!
1982: Argentine forces surrender to British forces during the Falkland Islands dispute.
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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