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1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born.
1774: First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.1797: In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
1805: At the Battle of Trafalgar, A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signaled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.
1824: Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.1833: Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize, is born.
1854: Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
1892: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).1917: Dizzy Gillespie is born.
1921: President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
1928: Whitey Ford is born.
1940: Marnfred Mann is born.1942: Judy Scheindlin, aka Judge Judy, is born.
1944: The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.1945: Everett McGill is born. He played the Fremen leader Stilgar in the under-appreciated David Lynch Dune and Ed Hurley on Twin Peaks.
1956: Carrie Fisher is born. How could I not post this picture?
1959: In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1966: More than 140 people, mostly children, are killed when a coal waste landslide engulfs a school and several houses in south Wales.1972: Saffron Burrows is born. She played the doomed mad scientist Dr. Susan McAlester in Deep Blue Sea, who comes up with the great idea of genetically engineering super-smart giant mako sharks.
1975: Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk hits a ball that strikes the left field foul pole in Boston's Fenway Park for a home run, giving the Red Sox a 7-6 victory in 12 innings over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 of the World Series.
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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