30 BC Cleoptara, Queen of Egypt and former wife to Julius Caesar,
commits suicide by means of venomous snakebite to the
mammary gland.
1676 Wampanoag chieftain Metacom (or "Philip") is killed in a swamp
near Mount Hope. Thus ends King Philip's War, the first war
between Indians and European settlers.
1869 In San Francisco, Emperor Norton I issues a stern edict
outlawing both the Republican and Democratic political parties.
Violators face a prison term of five-to-ten years.
1951 Dr. Jean Vieu discovers two patients stricken with abdominal
pain and grotesque hallucinations in Pont St. Esprit, France.
They are just the first of more than 230 afflicted townspeople,
thanks to bread tainted with ergot.
1985 30 minutes after takeoff, JAL flight 123 loses all hydraulic
pressure, rendering the controls inoperable. The crew attempts
a return to Tokyo-Haneda airport by adjusting power to the
engines, but the 747 crashes into a mountain ridge near Mt.
Osutaka. When rescue workers arrive the following morning, they
find 4 survivors and 520 dead.

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