{Click on 5th photo & scroll right to see remaining photos} 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals. 1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall 1522 - Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico 1552 - Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny. 1581 - Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet Ballet Comique de la Reine, is staged in Paris 1582 - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days 1655 - Jews of Lublin are massacred 1660 - Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam 1756 - Saxon army surrenders to Prussia 1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1783 - Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent 1786 - Earliest 32°F (0°C) recorded temp in NYC 1789 - 1st presidential tour-George Washington in New England 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile 1827 - Charles Darwin admitted to Christs College, Cambridge 1842 - Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung 1846 – Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether 1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard 1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses 1874 - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force 1878 - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1880 - Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun 1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. 1883 - Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional 1894 - Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France 1897 - King Leopold II takes Belgian crown 1904 - The Russians are driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho; both sides suffer high casualties: Japanese (16,000) and Russians (60,000) 1914 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded 1914 - Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21) 1914 - Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights) 1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. 1924 - President Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument 1928 - German dirigible Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, NJ 1932 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight. 1933 - 20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect: Presidential term begins in Jan not March 1937 - Ernest Hemingway novel To Have & Have Not published 1939 - LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC 1940 - -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed; Londons Waterloo Station bombed 1940 - The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. 1941 - 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe 1941 - Japan Tojo regime forms 1941 - Jews caught outside Nazi Ghetto walls in occupied Poland could be put to death 1944 - The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitlers NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary. 1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry 1951 - I Love Lucy debuts on CBS TV 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive 1956 - William J Brennan Jr appointed to US Supreme Court 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1964 - Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph 1966 - LBJ signs a bill creating US Department of Transportation 1966 - Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. 1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war 1969 - 3rd Country Music Association Award: Johnny Cash & Tammy Wynette wins 1970 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt 1973 - Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed 1974 - National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school bussing 1975 - Iceland moves international boundary from 50 to 200 miles 1976 - 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R) 1977 - Debbie Boones You Light Up My Life goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks 1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1980 - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids 1981 - Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California. 1984 - Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes 1985 - Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit 1989 - South Africa President FW de Klerk frees ANC Founder Walter Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners 1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize 1991 - Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48) 1993 - Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1997 - US launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn 2001 - NASAs Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiters moon Io. 2003 - China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. 2003 - The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43. 2005 - Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested. Happy Birthday to famous stiffs Friedrich Nietzsche, who challenged Christianity and traditional morality with books like Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, and Thus Spake Zarathustra (170), Mario Puzo, Italian-American novelist and screenwriter whose Mafia novel, The Godfather, was adapted into Francis Ford Coppolas legendary film trilogy. He also wrote the screenplays for the Superman movies, as well as novels titled Fools Die and The Dark Arena (94), Fela Kuti, Afrobeat pioneer, political activist, composer, and musician. His life was commemorated in an off-Broadway musical called Fela!, which was nominated for more than ten Tony Awards. He was a big influence on Ginger Baker who lived and played with him in Nigeria (76), Virgil, ancient Roman poet who is famous for his epic work The Aeneid, as well as for his Eclogues and Georgics. His literary work, created during the Augustan period, spanned the genres of epic, pastoral, and didactic poetry (2084), John Lawrence Sullivan, recognized as the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing and as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing (156), John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist who wrote the bestselling trilogy of American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He also served as editor of Fortune magazine and had a career as a United States diplomat, serving as U.S. Ambassador to India during John F. Kennedys presidency (106), Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, presidential speechwriter, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books on the presidencies of Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. His most famous works include The Age of Jackson (1945), The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (1949), and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965) (97), PG Wodehouse, best remembered for his novels and short stories featuring Blandings Castle settings and the famous Jeeves character, this early 20th-century British author and humorist also wrote over a dozen plays and worked as a musical theater lyricist (133), Ed Mcbain, author and screenwriter who became known for his 1954 novel, The Blackboard Jungle, as well as for his screenplays for Strangers When We Meet (1960) and Hitchcocks The Birds (1963). His other works include the 87th Precinct crime series and the late twentieth-century novel, Candyland (88) and Jane Darwell, who acted in over 100 films, playing the matriarch in The Grapes of Wrath and the bird woman in Marry Poppins. She also played a role in the classic film Gone With the Wind (135). Tito Jackson, Singer and guitarist who was a founding member of The Jackson 5 and The Jacksons and who also pursued a solo career. He was joined in the Jackson 5 by Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Jackie Jackson (61), Penny Marshall, star of Laverne & Shirley who directed beloved films such as Big, starring Tom Hanks. With Big, she became the first female director to have a film gross over $100 million (71), Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology (83), Tanya Roberts, who played Julie Rogers on the final season of Charlies Angels. She also played a role in the James Bond film A View to Kill (59), Emeril Lagasse, cable television chef from Essence of Emeril whose recipes brought excitement to many an American kitchen AND Sarah Ferguson, former Duchess of York who became a successful working mom and television personality after divorcing her husband, Prince Andrew. She is known as Fergie, and was caught up in a scandal when she tried to make money off of her former connections with the Royal Family (55), Dominic West, who played the role of a detective on the popular HBO television show, The Wire and in 2011 he began a role on the BBC period drama, The Hour (45), Richard Carpenter, one-half of the musical duo The Carpenters who co-composed Goodbye to Love and Only Yesterday, among others (68), Linda Lavin, the struggling waitress Alice in the sitcom of the same title (77), Lee Iacocca, Chrysler President and CEO who saved the company from bankruptcy. He engineered the Ford Mustang and Ford Pinto cars (90), Jim Palmer, Baltimore Orioles pitcher and 6-time MLB All-Star who won the AL Cy Young Award three times; helped lead the Orioles to World Series Championships in 1966, 1970 and 1983 (69), Michael Lewis, author and financial journalist whose acclaimed books include Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003) and The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006). His publications have received high praise from Forbes and New York Times reviewers (54), Larry Miller, film and television actor who has had roles in popular films such as 10 Things I Hate About You and The Nutty Professor. After playing Principal Elliot T. Jindrake in the 2001 movie, Max Keebles Big Move, he provided the voice of Mayor Dean Buzzwell in the 2007 film, Bee Movie (61) and Barry McGuire, Christian music pioneer who released the single Eve of Destruction (77) are celebrating because theyre not dead yet. 1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall 1522 - Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico 1783 - Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, who challenged Christianity and traditional morality with books like Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, and Thus Spake Zarathustra (170) 1846 – Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether 1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard 1894 - Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France 1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. 1924 - President Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument 1924 - Lee Iacocca, Chrysler President and CEO who saved the company from bankruptcy. He engineered the Ford Mustang and Ford Pinto cars (90) 1935 - Barry McGuire, Christian music pioneer who released the single Eve of Destruction (77) 1938 - Fela Kuti, Afrobeat pioneer, political activist, composer, and musician. His life was commemorated in an off-Broadway musical called Fela!, which was nominated for more than ten Tony Awards. He was a big influence on Ginger Baker who lived and played with him in Nigeria (76) 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive 1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war 1980 - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
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