This Day In History
- 1533 England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
- 1892 The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
- 1934 The Dionne quintuplets Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.
- 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened to traffic.
- 1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
- 1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.
- 1957 The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
- 1977 Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killing 165 people.
- 1985 David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers.
- 1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
- 1996 President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
- 1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.
- 1998 Comic actor Phil Hartman of ''Saturday Night Live'' and ''NewsRadio'' fame was shot to death at his home in Encino, Calif., by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
- 2002 NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- 2003 President Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts, saying they already were "adding fuel to an economic recovery."
- 1908 Ian Fleming (author: creator of Bond ... James Bond; died Aug 12, 1964)
- 1944 Rudolph Giuliani (Rudolph William Louis Giuliani III) (politician: Mayor of New York City)
- 1944 Gladys (Maria) Knight (singer: w/The Pips)
- 1945 John Fogerty (songwriter; singer: group: Creedence Clearwater:)
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