1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923.

1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.

1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (Miranda v. Arizona).

1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.

1985 ~ Birthday of Lela Star, Porn Actress.

1986 ~ Death of Benny Goodman, the ''King of Swing,'.

1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

1998 ~ Death of Reg Smythe, British comic artist (Andy Capp)

2005 ~ A jury acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.

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1775 ~ The U.S. Army was founded.

1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1940 ~ WWII: German troops enter Paris.

1942 ~ Anne Frank began her diary.

1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

1982 ~ Birthday of Lang Lang, Chinese pianist.

1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end.

1991 ~ Death of Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress.

1994 ~ Death of Henry Mancini, American composer.

1995 ~ Death of Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction writer.

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1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.

1836 ~ Arkansas became the 25th state.

1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.

1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.

1904 ~ More than 1,000 people died in a fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum.

1916 ~ President Wilson signed a bill granting a federal charter to the Boy Scouts of America, stating that their purpose is to:

"... promote, through organization, and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues ..."

1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.

1995 ~ Death of John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer.

1980 ~ Birthday Mary Carey, Candidate for Governor of California in 2003 & Porn Actress.

1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.

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1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache Warrior & Leader.

1858 ~ Abraham Lincoln gave his “House Divided” speach in Springfield, Illinois. A brilliant piece of argument!

1903 ~ The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.

1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.

1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.

1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.

1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1976 ~ Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.

1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.

1990 ~ Death of Megan Leigh, Porn Actress.

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1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Shah Jahan I, build her a tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

1898 ~ Birthday of M.C. Escher, Dutch Artist.

1928 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

1945 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).

1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.

1966 ~ Birthday of Christy Canyon, former Porn Actress.

1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament.

1975 ~ Birthday of Chloe Jones, former Porn Actress.

1996 ~ Death of Thomas Kuhn, Philosopher of science (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).

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1945 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).

Didn't Dick Whittington and a few dozen others get in before him?

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I think he was the first "elected" Mayor of London.

Dick Whittington, I believe, was appointed Lord Mayor of London ... three times maybe.

Dick Whittington was Lord Mayor of London several times.

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1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed on the Moon.

1815 ~ British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.

1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.

1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.

1942 ~ Birthday of Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.

1948 ~ The UN Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1974 ~ Death of Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union.

1979 ~ Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

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1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.

1865 ~ More two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.

1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, the future Duchess of Windsor.

1934 ~ The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established.

1937 ~ Death of J.M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.

1944 ~ First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.

1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a filibuster in the Senate.

1982 ~ An Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.

1623 ~ Death of Sir William Golding, English writer; Nobel laureate. (Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage)

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1623 ~ Death of Sir William Golding, English writer; Nobel laureate. (Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage)

Testing us again jseal? 1993.

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Dang! I always wince when I see you post to Strange Days, as it usually is to correct an error in my post.

Sorry 'bout that folks, good writer, tho'.

TY!

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If an old friend can't keep you on your toes, it leaves room for newbies to horn in.

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1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.

1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne.

1877 ~ Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.

1899 ~ Birthday of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.

1909 ~ Birthday of Errol Flynn, Actor.

1942 ~ Birthday of Brian Wilson, one of The Beach Boys.

1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.

1967 ~ Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws.

1995 ~ Shell Oil abandoned plans to dump its Brent Spar oil rig at sea.

2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.

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1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.

1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.

1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.

1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.

1945 ~ The battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.

1964 ~ Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

1984 ~ Birthday of Alicia Alighatti, Porn Actress.

1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution.

2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.

2005 ~ Death of Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila.

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