This Day In History
- 1614 Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
- 1621 The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, Mass., on a return trip to England.
- 1649 Elihu Yale, the English philanthropist for whom Yale University is named, was born.
- 1792 George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
- 1856 Black educator Booker T. Washington was born in Franklin County, Va.
- 1887 Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling "water" in the manual alphabet.
- 1895 Playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused the writer of homosexual practices.
- 1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, OH began the first regular production of balloon tires.
- 1933 The first operation to remove a lung was performed -- at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
- 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.
- 1955 Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.
- 1964 Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur died in Washington, D.C., at age 84.
- 1971 Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
- 1975 Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek died at age 87.
- 1976 Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died at age 72.
- 1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points.
- 1985 Broadcasters banded together to play the single, "We Are the World", at 10:50 a.m. E.S.T. Stations in the United States were joined by hundreds of others around the world in a sign of unification for the African relief cause. Even Muzak made the song only the second vocal selection it has ever played in elevators and offices since its inception.
- 1987 Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut.
- 1991 Former Texas Sen. John Tower and 22 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Ga.
- 1992 Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton died in Little Rock, Ark., at age 74.
- 1997 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg died in New York City at age 70.
- 1999 Libya surrendered two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland to a U.N. representative.
- 2000 Yoshiro Mori took over as Japan's new prime minister, succeeding Keizo Obuchi, who had been felled by a stroke.
- 1856 Booker T. Washington (educator, black leader, author: Up from Slavery; died Nov 14, 1915)
- 1900 Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy (Academy Award-winning actor; passed away June 10, 1967)
- 1916 (Eldred) Gregory Peck; died June 12, 2003)
- 1920 Arthur Hailey (author: Airport, The Final Diagnosis)
- 1921 Robert Q. Lewis (comedian, TV quiz show panelist: What’s My Line, To Tell the Truth, Call My Bluff; died Dec 11, 1991)
- 1922 Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle) (singer: Ivory Tower, actress: My Little Margie)
- 1933 Frank Gorshin (impressionist, actor: Batman, The Great Impostor)
- 1937 Colin Powell (U.S. Secretary of State; military leader: four-star general, Chairman U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989-1993])
- 1949 Dr. Judith A. Resnik (electrical engineer, astronaut: mission specialist on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger [died Jan 28, 1986])
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