1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).
1925: Robert F. Kennedy is born.
1932: Richard Dawson is born.1939: Dickie Smothers is born.
1943: The Battle of Tarawa begins. United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1947: Joe Walsh is born.
1947: The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1959: Bo Derek is born. She never really did anything for me - I keep expecting to peel off her face and start munching a rat. But she has starred in some of the classic bad movies of all time, like Tarzan the Ape Man and Bolero.
1959: Sean Young is born.
1962: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.1969: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
1975: Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain dies after 36 years in power.
1984: SETI is founded.
1985: Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
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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