This Day In History
- 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
- 1767 John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.
- 1798 The U.S. Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress.
- 1804 Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J.
- 1934 The first appointments to the newly created Federal Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.
- 1952 The Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.
- 1955 The Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.
- 1977 The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony.
- 1989 Actor Laurence Olivier died at age 82.
- 1995 The United States normalized relations with Vietnam.
- 1998 Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home after the positive identification of his remains, which had been enshrined at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Va.
- 1999 A U.S. Air Force cargo jet dropped off emergency medical supplies at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center for a physician at the center who had discovered a lump in her breast.
- 1767 John Quincy Adams (6th U.S. President [1825-1829]; married to Louisa Johnson [three sons, one daughter]; son of 2nd President John Adams; nickname: Old Man Eloquent; died Feb 23, 1848)
- 1915 Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan) (Academy & Tony Award-winning actor: The King and I [1956, 1951 resp.]; The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Anastasia, The Brothers Karamazov, Futureworld, Westworld; died Oct 10, 1985)
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