This Day In History
- 1787 The Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia.
- 1810 Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
- 1844 The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
- 1895 Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.
- 1935 Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.
- 1946 Transjordan became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
- 1961 President John F. Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
- 1963 The Organization of African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 1968 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.
- 1979 An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, killing all 271 people on board and two on the ground.
- 1981 Daniel Goodwin, wearing a ''Spiderman'' costume, scaled the outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 1/2 hours.
- 1983 "Return of the Jedi" topped all previous opening day box office records with a gross of $6,219,629. It opened on 1,002 movie screens around the U.S.
- 1986 An estimated seven million people participated in ''Hands Across America,'' forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless.
- 1992 Jay Leno debuted as host of NBC's ''Tonight Show,'' succeeding Johnny Carson.
- 1997 Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, marking 41 years, 10 months in office.
- 1997 Polish voters adopted a constitution that removed the last traces of communism.
- 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson (writer: Essays, Representative Men, Nature; poet: Days; editor: The Dial; died Apr 27, 1882)
- 1878 Bill ‘Bojangles’ (Luther) Robinson
- 1926 Claude Akins (actor)
- 1947 Karen Valentine (actress: Room 222)
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