1541 ~ Ignatius of Loyola became the first superior-general of the Jesuits.

1581 ~ Frances Drake completed the circumnavigation of the world.

1884 ~ Birthday of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, planner of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

1887 ~ Susanna Salter became mayor of Argonia, KS, making her the first woman mayor in the U.S.

1895 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, Dance Instructor, burlesqued in one of the “Avengers” episodes.

1915 ~ Blues legend McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters.

1917 ~ Birthday of Gregory Peck, Actor.

1949 ~ Delegates from 12 countries met in Washington to sign the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO.

1968 ~ U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death.

1969 ~ Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first total artificial heart.

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