1687 ~ Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, was murdered.

1813 ~ Birthday of David Livingstone, Missionary & Explorer.

1848 ~ Birthday of Wyatt Earp, Policeman & Gunfighter.

1861 ~ The First Taranaki War ended in New Zealand.

1906 ~ Birthday of Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official.

1915 ~ Pluto was photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.

1932 ~ Sydney Harbour Bridge opened.

1950 ~ Death of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author.

1982 ~ Falklands War: Argentines landed on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.

1987 ~ Death of Louis-Victor de Broglie, French noble, Physicist and 1929 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.


Holidays and observances

The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.

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