1306: The Earl of Pembroke defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven1566: Mary, Queen of Scots gives birth to the future King James I of England and VI of Scotland, although there were some doubts about who were really the biological parents.
1623: Blaise Pascal is born.
1846: The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, NJ.1862: The US Congress outlaws slavery in all US territories, thereby nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
1867: Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by firing squad.
1870: After all of the Southern states are readmitted to the Union the Confederate States of America formally ceases to exist.1896: Wallis Simpson is born. She is the woman for whom King Edward VIII abdicated the throne.
1897: Moe Howard, Stooge, is born.1902: Guy Lombardo is born.
1910: Abe Fortas, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is born.
1914: Lester Flatt, of Flatt & Scruggs, is born.1915: Julius Schwartz, longtime editor of DC Comics is born. When The Flash would go on one of his dimension-hopping jaunts he would occasionally pop in and visit with Julius on Earth-Prime, which is our Earth (or was, at any rate).
1917: King George V orders the Royal family to lose its German-sounding last name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and take the more acceptable name Windsor.1919: Pauline Kael, movie critic, is born.
1934: The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the FCC.1948: Phylicia Rashad is born.
1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are put to death at Sing Sing Prison.
1962: Paula Abdul is born.1964: The Civil Rights Act is approved in the Senate after surviving an 84-day filibuster.
1967: Mia Sara is born. There isn't a guy of my generation who wasn't in love with her in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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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