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1683: William Penn brings 13 immigrant families from Krefeld, Germany to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first German people to immigrate to America.
1884: The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889: Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1889: The Moulin Rouge caberet opens in Paris.
1922: Joe Frazier is born.
1928: The era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.
1928: Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1938: The last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1945: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series. Billy placed a curse on the Cubs saying that they would never win another World Series and so far, it's held up.
1949: Iva Toguri D'Aquino, aka Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison.
1963: Elisabeth Shue is born.
1973: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War.
1973: Ioan Gruffudd is born. He played Reed Richards in the recent Fantastic Four movies.
1977: The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981: President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated
1995: 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
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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