1675: A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
1783: In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
1795: James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States is born.
1865: Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States is born.
1889: North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.1895: The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000.
1913: Burt Lancaster is born. Here he is in the famous kissing-on-the-beach scene in From Here to Eternity. I can never watch this and not think of Airplane!
1898: Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expresses support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine in what became known as the Balfour Declaration.
1920: KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920. KDKA is still on the air and is one of the four remaining stations west of the Mississippi to have call letters beginning with K. The other three are KQV, also in Pittsburgh, KYW in Philadelphia and KFIZ in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.1927: Steve Ditko is born. He is the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He's who Dr. Byron Orpheus is based on in The Venture Bros.
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Dr. Orpheus1930: Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is formed. Back when I lived in the woods in far northern Vermont, the only TV we could get was the CBC. That's where I picked up my taste for The Red Green Show.1936: Jack Starret is born. He played Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles.
1936: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1942: Stefanie Powers is born. She played the winsome Jennifer Hart on the 80's detective show Hart to Hart.
1947: In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. It flew at an altitude of 70 feet for about a mile. These days, it's on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.1948: President Harry S. Truman narrowly wins re-election over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
1959: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional hockey.
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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