1536 – King Henry VIII accused Anne Boleyn of adultery and incest
1776 – France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1833 – Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1865 – President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1908 – 1908 “Take me out to the Ball Game” registered for copyright.
In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Wagner as one of the first five members. He received the second-highest vote total, behind Ty Cobb and tied with Babe Ruth.
Line-Up for Yesterday
W is for Wagner,
The bowlegged beauty,
Short was closed to traffic
With Honus on Duty
Ogden Nash
Sport Magazine January 1949
1909 – Honus Wagner steals his way around the bases in the 1st inning against Cubs
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Co. of Delaware.
1926 – US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1933 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1949 – Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman
1955 – Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for Cat on Hot Tin Roof
1968 – Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
1969 – British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY
1974 – Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
1988 – Jackson Pollock’s Search sold for $4,800,000
1994 – Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2012 – Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream sells at auction for $119,922,500
Birthdays
1729 – Catherine the Great Empress of Russia (1762-96)
1837 – Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert’s Rules of Order)
1903 – Benjamin Spock, (Common Sense Book of Baby Care)
1912 – Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
Deaths
1519 – Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
1957 – Joseph McCarthy, anti-communist US senator (R-Wisc), dies at 48
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77
2011 – Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and ‘the most wanted man in the world’ (b. 1957)
Edited from various sources including historyorb.com, the NYTimes.com Wikipedia and other internet searches