1415: During the Hundred Years' War, Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men.
1521: Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1704: The British and Austrians are victorius over the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim during the War of Spanish Succession.
1860: Annie Oakley is born.
1888: John Logie Baird is born. He is credited with creating the first working television system, although his electro-mechanical design was rapidly superseded by the purely electronic designs of Valdimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth.
1895: Burt Lahr is born. He played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.1899: Alfred Hitchcock is born. He made a couple of movies, I guess, but he also was the patron of the boy detective group The Three Investigators.
1902: Felix Wankel, inventor of the Wankel Rotary Engine is born.
1907: Sir Basil Spence is born. He was an architect famous for designing the the "Brutalist" style. Boy, that sounds like fun, eh? For example, he designed the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Bulding, aka The Beehive.
1911: Bill Bernbach, advertising magnate is born. He came up with Volkswagon's "Think Small" campaign as well as "We try harder" for Avis and Mikey for Life Cereal. He said, "Good advertising builds sales. Great advertising builds factories."
1913: Harry Brearley invents stainless steel. Stainless steel is a steel alloy with a minimum of 11.5% chromium.
1918: Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.1918: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1926: Fidel Castro is born.
1930: Don Ho is born.
1940: The Battle of Britain begins as the Luftwaffe launches a series of strikes on British fighter bases and radar installations.1942: Bambi premieres at Radio City Music Hall.
1961: The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
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.
