1191: After a two-year siege, Saladin surrenders Acre, Israel to the leaders of the Third Crusade, Richard I of England, Philip II of France and Leopold V of Austria.
1543: King Henry VIII marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
1641: A Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. It didn't take, as both parties immediately abrogated the treaty.1690: At the Battle of Boyne, the Protestant forces of William of Orange (King William III) defeat the Catholic forces of the former King James II, putting the final seal on the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
1812: During the War of 1812, the US invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1817: Henry David Thoreau is born.
1854: George Eastman, inventor of the roll of film is born.
1862: Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor. It is illegal to make copies of it or to privately sell it. Each branch of the service has their own design. This is the Army version:
1864: George Washington Carver is born.
1880: Tod Browning is born. He directed early horror classics like Freaks and Dracula.1895: Buckminster Fuller, futurist and architect is born. He invented the geodesic dome.
1895: Oscar Hammerstein II is born. He wrote the book for many of the 20th Century's classic musicals like South Pacific and The King and I.1908: Milton Berle is born. Let's not go into how he was gifted.
1909: Curly Joe DeRita, the sixth Stooge, is born. TV's Frank felt he "lacked subtlety."
1937: Bill Cosby is born.1951: Cheryl Ladd is born.
1951: Jamey Sheridan is born. He played the pure-evil Randall Flagg in the better-than-I-expected TV version of The Stand.
1984: Walter Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro as the first female vice presidential candidate of a major US party.
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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