1585: The Treaty of Nemours abolishes the tolerance of Protestantism in France.
1846: During the Mexican-American War, American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, beginning the American conquest of California.
1860: Composer Gustav Mahler is born.
1863: The US begins its first military draft - exemptions cost $100.1898: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a US territory.
1906: Satchel Paige is born.
1907: Robert Heinlein is born.
1919: Jon Pertwee is born. He was the third person to assay the role of The Doctor on Doctor Who.1927: Band leader for the old Tonight Show, Doc Severinsen is born.
1930: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction on the Hoover Dam.
1933: Historian David McCullough is born.
1940: Ringo Starr is born.1941: US forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany.
1946: Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946: Howard Hughes nearly dies when his prototype XF-11 spy plane crashes in Beverly Hills.
1949: Shelley Duvall is born.1959: Venus passes between the Earth and the star Regulus. This rare event is used to tell the diameter and composition of the atmosphere of Venus.
1966: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is born.
1980: Sharia law is instituted in Iran.
2003: The Communist Party of Armenia is formed. A day late and a zloty short!
2005: A series of four terrorist bombings in London kill 52 people.
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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