1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1779 – Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1784 – Holland forbids orange clothes
1823 – King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
1879 – Gilbert & Sullivan’s “HMS Pinafore” debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1882 – 17″ hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1884 – First roller coaster used at Coney Island.
1896 – Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif
1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 – Pepsi Cola company forms
1909 – First US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1911 – A 772 gram (1.7lb) stony meteorite strikes near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1935 – US Congress accepts FDR’s “New Deal”
1947 – Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1960 – “Psycho” opens in NY
1961 – Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
The Peugeot 504
1980 – US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
1983 – USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1987 – Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all charges but gun possession charges after shooting 4 youths who tried to rob him
1989 – Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, on this day four more are made all on the 6th hole!
1991 – Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian
1992 – Caspar Weinberger indicted on Iran-Contra charge
Birthdays
1829 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1895 – Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1896 – Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1899 – Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1917 – Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher
1917 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer for Ferrari
1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer
1935 – Jim Dine, artist
Deaths
1959 – George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), commits suicide at 45
1977 – Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65