This Day In History
- 1642 The Canadian city of Montreal was founded.
- 1804 The French Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
- 1860 Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL was nominated for the U.S. Presidency by Republican party leaders at a meeting in Chicago.
- 1896 The Supreme Court endorsed the concept of ''separate but equal'' racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson.
- 1897 A public reading of Bram Stoker's new novel ''Dracula, or, The Un-dead'' was staged in London.
- 1911 Composer Gustav Mahler died in Vienna, Austria.
- 1933 The Tennessee Valley Authority was created.
- 1951 The United Nations moved out of its temporary headquarters in Lake Success, N.Y., for its permanent home in Manhattan.
- 1953 Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a North American F-86 Canadair over Rogers Dry Lake, Calif.
- 1980 9,677-foot Mt. St. Helens, quiet for 93 years, blew its top.
- 1992 The season finale of "Murphy Brown" aired on CBS with Murphy Brown, played by Candice Bergen, giving birth to an illegitimate son (Avery Brown).
- 1994 Israel's three decades of occupation in the Gaza Strip ended as Israeli troops completed their withdrawal and Palestinian authorities took over.
- 1995 Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov was found dead at age 45.
- 1998 The federal government filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
- 2003 "Les Miserables" closed on Broadway after more than 16 years and 6,680 performances.
- 1912 Perry (Pierino) Como
- 1920 Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) (264th pope of the Roman Catholic Church: the first Polish pope)
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