This Day In History
- 1494 During his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus first sighted Jamaica.
- 1818 Political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia.
- 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
- 1847 The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, PA.
- 1891 Carnegie Hall (then named Music Hall) opened in New York City.
- 1892 Congress extended the Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years.
- 1893 Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression.
- 1925 John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
- 1945 In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.
- 1955 West Germany became a sovereign state.
- 1978 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds smacked his 3,000th major-league hit. Not many years later, ‘Charlie Hustle’ would break Ty Cobb’s career record of 4,191 hits.
- 1981 Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food.
- 1994 Singapore caned American teen-ager Michael Fay for vandalism.
- 2000 Reformers swept Iran's run-off elections, winning control of the legislature from conservatives for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
- 2002 French President Jacques Chirac was re-elected in a landslide victory over extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
- 1818 Karl Marx (socialist writer: Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto; founder of communism; died Mar 14, 1883)
- 1942 Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) (Grammy Award-winning country singer)
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