1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) 1865 - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty 1894 - London Tower Bridge opens 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes explanation his special theory of relativity 1908 - Tunguska Event: large meteoroid or comet impacts in Siberia 1934 - Night of Long Knives - Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party 1936 - Margaret Mitchells novel Gone with the Wind published 1938 - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics 1940 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forms 1948 - Last British troops leave Israel 1953 - 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured 1960 - US stops sugar import from Cuba 1967 - Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut 1974 - Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west 1982 - Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) fails 3 states short of ratification 1984 - Mass murder in Dallas restaurant/club 1990 - East & West Germany merge their economies 1992 - 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC) 1994 - US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life ---------------------------------------------------- 1882 - Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged 1971 - 3 cosmonauts die in Soyuz re-entry 1974 - Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church 1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79 1995 - Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Heres Lucy), dies at 89 1995 - Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45 1996 - Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41 2001 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924) 2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924) 2013 - 19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona
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