1495 ~ Friar John Cor :wingang: recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.

1660 ~ Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.

1801 ~ Birthday of Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler.

1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer.

1890 ~ The U.S. Census Bureau began using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.

1918 ~ World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Heroes indeed!

1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress.

1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic.

1965 ~ Birthday of Nigel Short, English chess player.

1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.

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1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, French author.

1800 ~ First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.

1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.

1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.

1857 ~ Birthday of Edward Elgar, English composer.

1896 ~ Marconi received a patent for his newest invention: the radio.

1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.

1987 ~ Death of Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist.

1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.

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1875 ~ Death of Georges Bizet, French composer.

1888 ~ The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the San Francisco Examiner.

1889 ~ The coast to coast Canadian Pacific Railway was completed.

1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer.

1924 ~ Death of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist.

1925 ~ Birthday of Tony Curtis, Actor.

1926 ~ Birthday of Allen Ginsberg, American poet.

1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson.

1969 ~ The science fiction television series Star Trek aired its final new episode after being canceled by NBC.

1989 ~ The PRC government sent troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

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1798 ~ Death of Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover.

1876 ~ The Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco, California via the first American transcontinental railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.

1917 ~ Order of the British Empire introduced.

1919 ~ Birthday of Robert Merrill, American baritone.

1919 ~ The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, author.

1940 ~ As the last Allied soldier left Dunkirk, British P.M. Churchill vowed his forces "shall never surrender".

1986 ~ Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

1989 ~ Several hundred civilians were shot dead by the PRC army during the military operation to crush the democratic uprising in Tiananmen Square.

1998 ~ Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

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1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish economist.

1849 ~ Denmark became a constitutional monarchy.

1883 ~ Birthday of John Maynard Keynes, English economist.

1910 ~ Death of O. Henry, American author.

1933 ~ The U.S. Congress abrogated the United States' use of the gold standard.

1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe.

1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.

1977 ~ The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, went on sale.

1995 ~ The first Bose-Einstein condensate was created.

2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.

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we are closing in on your one year anniversary... or rather this therad's one year anniversary. lol. congrats i will be back on my bday topost it here for all of you.

1683 ~ Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum opened as the world's first university museum.

1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.

1859 ~ Queen Victoria made Queensland into a separate colony.

1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer.

1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.

1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.

1944 ~ D-Day (Operation Overlord) began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.

1972 ~ David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

1985 ~ The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" was exhumed; the remains found were later shown to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz' "Angel of Death".

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1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.

1329 ~ Death of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.

1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French impressionist painter.

1862 ~ The U.S. and U.K. agreed to suppress the slave trade.

1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian conductor.

1914 ~ The first vessel passed through the locks of the Panama Canal.

1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor.

1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.

1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist.

1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.

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632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.

1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer.

1866 ~ The Canadian Parliament met for the first time in Ottawa.

1876 ~ Death of George Sand, Author.

1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.

1910 ~ Birthday of John W. Campbell Jr., Science Fiction Writer, Publisher, & Editor.

1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule.

1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published.

1950 ~ Sir Thomas Blamey became the only Field Marshal in Australian history.

998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association.

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68 ~ Suicide of Nero, Roman Emperor.

1810 ~ Birthday of Otto Nicolai, Composer.

1815 ~ End of the Congress of Vienna: a new European political situation was set.

1860 ~ Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter was the first dime novel to be published.

1870 ~ Death of Charles Dickens, English author.

1916 ~ Birthday of Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, former president of the World Bank.

1934 ~ Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.

1959 ~ The USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.

1973 ~ Secretariat won the Triple Crown.

1999 ~ Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO signed a peace treaty.

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323 BC ~ Death of Alexander the Great.

1829 ~ First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

1836 ~ Death of André-Marie Ampère, French physicist.

1846 ~ The California Republic declared independence from Mexico.

1915 ~ Birthday of Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1921 ~ Birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

1977 ~ Apple Computer began shipping the Apple II personal computer.

1991 ~ New York City hosted “The Mother of All Parades", welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.

1997 ~ Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot ordered the killing of his defense chief Son Sen. Paranoia seems to be a common ailment among losing dictators.

2004 ~ Death of Ray Charles, Singer & Musician.

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1770 ~ Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

1776 ~ Birthday of John Constable, English painter.

1864 ~ Birthday of Richard Strauss, Composer & Conductor.

1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne.

1918 ~ Birthday of Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, Nobel Peace prize winner.

1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire.

1963 ~ Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself with gasoline in a Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

1998 ~ Compaq Computer purchased Digital Equipment Corporation.

2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed).

2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe.

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1665 ~ England installed a government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1897 ~ Birthday of Anthony Eden, U.K. Prime Minister.

1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.

1967 ~ The U.S.Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.

1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1990 ~ The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.

1994 ~ Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings, but held liable in a civil suit.

2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.

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1777 ~ Marquis de Lafayette arrived to help America train its army.

1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923.

1886 ~ A fire razed much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

1892 ~ Birthday of Basil Rathbone, Actor.

1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.

1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first Black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.

1982 ~ Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

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1671 ~ Birthday of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer.

1736 ~ Birthday of Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician. The unit of electrical charge, the coulomb, and Coulomb's law are named after him.

1872 ~ Trade unions legalized in Canada.

1903 ~ Birthday of Alonzo Church, Mathematician & Logician.

1909 ~ Birthday of Burl Ives, American Folk Singer, Author & Actor.

1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end.

1985 ~ TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah.

1995 ~ Death of Roger Zelazny, science fiction author.

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