1110 – Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1154 – Pope Hadrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until recent
years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
1534 – Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1783 – General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce’s Tavern
“Washington’s Farewell to His Officers.”
Engraving by Phillibrown, from a painting by Alonzo Chappel.
1791 – Britain’s Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, is first published
1812 – Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
1875 – William Marcy “Boss” Tweed escapes from jail
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1918 – President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, first chief executive to travel outside US while in office
1930 – Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1951 – Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman, kills 500
1952 – Killer fogs begin in London, “Smog” becomes a word
1961 – Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse’s Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1965 – Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
1978 – Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco’s first female mayor
1981 – Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1990 – Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price
Births
AD 34 – Persius, Roman poet (d. 62)
“We consume our tomorrows
fretting about our yesterdays.”
1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-German Abstract painter and author (d. 1944)
1914 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)
1944 – François Migault, French race car driver (d. 2012)
1969 – Jay Z, Rrapper, producer, and actor, co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records
1973 – Tyra Banks, American model, actress, and producer
Deaths
530 BC – Cyrus the Great, king of Persia (b. 600 BC)
1334 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)
1976 – Benjamin Britten, pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
1993 – Frank Zappa, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1940)