This Day In History
- 1802 Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
- 1916 Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter uprising.
- 1921 West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
- 1937 Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel ''Gone with the Wind.''
- 1945 Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
- 1948 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.
- 1971 National Public Radio, the U.S. national, non-commercial radio network, was born.
- 1979 Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.
- 1986 In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.
- 1988 The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities.
- 2000 The archbishop of New York, Cardinal John O'Connor, died at age 80.
- 2001 The United States lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
- 2002 Pipe bombs exploded in six mailboxes in rural parts of Illinois and Iowa, injuring six people.
- 1920 Sugar Ray Robinson (International Boxing Hall of Fame middleweight champ)
- 1921 Joe Ames (singer: group: The Ames Brothers)
- 1933 James Brown (The Godfather of Soul)
- 1937 Frankie Valli (Francis Castellucio)
- 1947 Doug Henning (magician/illusionist)
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