This Day In History
- 1643 Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 1787 Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
- 1796 English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox to an 8-year-old boy.
- 1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis.
- 1904 The first Olympic games to be held in the United States opened in St. Louis.
- 1942 Aaron Copland's ''Lincoln Portrait'' was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
- 1942 The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established.
- 1955 Representatives from the Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland.
- 1973 The United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station.
- 1985 The first McDonald’s restaurant -- in Des Plaines, IL -- became the first museum of the fast-food business. McMannequins, McPosters and loads of McPhotos display years of hamburger McProgress!
- 1996 A tornado flattened 80 villages in nothern Bangladesh, killing more than 440 people.
- 1998 Singer Frank Sinatra died at age 82 after a heart attack.
- 1998 The hit TV series ''Seinfeld'' aired its final episode after nine years on NBC.
- 1998 The Associated Press commemorated its 150th anniversary.
- 2001 The Supreme Court ruled that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses.
- 1936 Bobby Darin (Cassotto)
- 1944 George Lucas (George Walton Lucas Jr.) (film producer, director: Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti)
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