1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice
1733 – Maria Theresa crowned Queen of Bohemia in Prague
1835 – Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1908 – Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1926 – Airship Norge is first vessel to fly over North Pole
1932 – Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
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1941 – Konrad Zuse, a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 that became operational in May 1941.
1942 – Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1951 – First H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1963 – Bob Dylan walks out of the “Ed Sullivan Show”
1965 – Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1980 – First nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
1989 – Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
1997 – Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1997 – Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
2002 – Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
2008 – 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people
Birthdays
1670 – Frederick Augustus I/ August II, the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)
1820 – Florence Nightingale, mother of ‘modern nursing’ (Crimean War)
1889 – Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1907 – Katharine Hepburn, Hartford CT, actress (Adam’s Rib, On Golden Pond)
1912 – Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)
1925 – Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, catcher/coach/manager (NY Yankees, Mets)
1936 – Frank Stella, American painter
1937 – George Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 Dirty Words, AM & FM, Carwash)
Deaths
1856 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1985 – Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925) |
