This Day In History
- 1774 Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.
- 1775 Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
- 1818 American patriot Paul Revere died in Boston.
- 1865 Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, Ga.
- 1899 Actor-dancer Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Neb.
- 1908 The first Mother's Day observance took place during church services in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia.
- 1924 J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.
- 1933 The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
- 1940 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.
- 1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission.
- 1968 Preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.
- 1994 Former President George H.W. Bush's office released his letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association, in which Bush expressed outrage over its reference to federal agents as ''jackbooted government thugs.''
- 1994 The state of Illinois executed convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.
- 1997 An earthquake in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people.
- 2000 A fire, set deliberately to clear brush from the path of a wildfire, was driven by high winds into a New Mexico canyon, forcing the evacuation of the 11,000 residents of Los Alamos.
- 2002 A tense 39-day standoff between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ended with 13 suspected militants flown into European exile and 26 released into the Gaza Strip.
- 2003 The New York Times announced on its Web site that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud," according to an investigation conducted by the paper.
- 1899 Fred Astaire (Austerlitz)
- 1921 Nancy Walker (Ann Myrtle Swoyer) (actress: McMillan and Wife)
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