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1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop. It was about tine.
1638 – Lunar eclipse is first astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
1667 – Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs first blood transfusion
1798 – US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1868 – President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed
1910 – Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1938 – Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1940 – Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France
1961 – Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1987 – Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
1988 – Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1997 – Christies auctions off Princess Di’s clothing for $5.5 million
Birthdays
1865 – Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school
1903 – George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], Bihar, British India, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984), (d. 1950)
1924 – Sidney Lumet, Phila, director
1925 – June Lockhart, NYC, actr
1945 – Carly Simon, NYC, singer
Deaths
1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86
1876 – Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 – George Armstrong Custer, US General, dies at the Battle of Little Bighorn aged 36
1876 – Thomas W Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
1906 – Stanford White, architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
1995 – Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer, dies of heart attack at 87
2003 – Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2009 – Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5, Thriller, Dangerous) dies of cardiac arrest at 50