This Day In History
- 1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, now known as New York.
- 1800 John Adams moved to Washington DC. He was the first President to live in what became the capital of the United States. It would be November before he would move into the People’s House, or the Executive Mansion, later known as the White House.
- 1808 Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, was born in Christian County, Ky.
- 1888 There was no joy in Mudville this day, as "Casey at the Bat" was first published in "The San Francisco Examiner".
- 1937 The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne, in Monts, France.
- 1963 Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
- 1968 Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas.
- 1981 Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.
- 1983 Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
- 1989 Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
- 1989 Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.
- 1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
- 2001 Mel Brooks' musical comedy ''The Producers'' won a record 12 Tony Awards.
- 2003 Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs was ejected from a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays after umpires found cork in his shattered bat.
- 1808 Jefferson Davis (President of the Confederate States of America [1861-1865])
- 1918 Lili St. Cyr (Willis Marie Van Schaak) (actress)
- 1925 Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) (actor)
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