This Day In History
- 1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, saying, ''If this be treason, make the most of it!''
- 1790 Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.
- 1916 The U.S. President’s flag was adopted by executive order.
- 1917 John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was born in Brookline, Mass.
- 1932 World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
- 1942 Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra recorded Irving Berlin's ''White Christmas'' in Los Angeles for Decca Records.
- 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, became the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest.
- 1961 Ricky Nelson
- 1973 Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
- 1985 Rioting erupted between British and Italian spectators at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels, Belgium; 39 people were killed.
- 1988 President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
- 1990 Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
- 1995 Actor Christopher Reeve was thrown head first while riding his horse in Virginia. Reeve was paralyzed, unable to walk or breathe on his own.
- 1996 Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israeli prime minister.
- 1998 Former Arizona senator and Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater died at age 89.
- 1999 Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
- 2001 Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
- 2001 The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
- 1630 King Charles II (British monarch: King of England, Scotland, Ireland [1660-1685]; died Feb 6, 1685)
- 1736 Patrick Henry (American revolutionary patriot: “...give me liberty, or give me death!”; died June 6, 1799)
- 1903 Bob Hope
- 1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- 1939 Al Unser Sr. (auto racer)
- 1956 LaToya (Yvonne) Jackson
- 1958 Annette Bening (actress)
- 1963 Lisa Whelchel (actress: The Facts of Life, Where the Red Fern Grows: Part 2, Twirl, The Double McGuffin)
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