This Day In History
- 1647 Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
- 1816 The American Bible Society was formed in New York City.
- 1832 The first national political platform was hammered out in Washington, DC.
- 1858 Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
- 1888 Songwriter Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Temun, Russia.
- 1894 Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike.
- 1910 Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
- 1944 Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy.
- 1946 The first CARE packages for Europe arrived at Le Havre, France.
- 1947 The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
- 1949 Israel was admitted to the United Nations.
- 1949 Siam changed its named to Thailand.
- 1981 Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer at age 36.
- 1996 An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board
- 1997 The Deep Blue IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York.
- 1998 India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years.
- 1998 A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.
- 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft delayed Timothy McVeigh's execution from May 16 to June 11 because of FBI mishandling of documents.
- 1888 Irving Berlin
- 1912 Foster Brooks (comedian)
- 1912 Phil Silvers (Philip Silversmith)
- 1927 Mort Sahl (comedian: Broadway, night club acts, actor: Don’t Make Waves, Doctor You’ve Got to be Kidding)
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