Today in History

1667 – First public art exhibition at the Palais-Royale, Paris

1682 – Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France

1833 – First tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire

1865 – General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant

1912 – RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York

1927 – Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences

1928 – Mae West’s NYC debut in a daring new play “Diamond Lil“

1962 – JFK throws out first ball at Washington’s new DC Stadium

1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.

1968 – Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta

1969 – First flight of Concorde 002

	Mae West

2002 – Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets

2003 – Baghdad falls to U.S. forces resulting in widespread looting

1597 – John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)

1794 – Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)

1830 – Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography

1903 – Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Nov 9]

1926 – Hugh Hefner, [Marston], Chicagp, magazine publisher (Playboy)

1626 – Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65

1945 – Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)

1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (Guggenheim Museum), dies at 89

1996 – James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls), dies at 81