This Day In History
- 1057 Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan.
- 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica.
- 1877 Thomas Edison wrote the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, “hello” would be a more appropriate greeting than “ahoy,” as suggested by Alexander Graham Bell when answering the telephone.
- 1888 T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as ''Lawrence of Arabia,'' was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
- 1911 Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, OH introduced Crisco hydrogenated shortening. We still use the stuff for pie crusts today.
- 1935 Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
- 1939 The MGM musical ''The Wizard of Oz'' premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 1944 Allied forces landed in southern France during World War II.
- 1945 The Allies proclaimed V-J Day, one day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
- 1948 The Republic of Korea was proclaimed.
- 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.
- 1971 President Richard Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
- 1997 The Justice Department decided not to prosecute senior FBI officials in connection with an alleged cover-up that followed the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho.
- 1998 A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370. It was the single deadliest act of violence in 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
- 2000 A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.
- 2001 Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
- 1769 Napolean Bonaparte (emperor of France; died May 5, 1821)
- 1771 Sir Walter Scott (writer: Ivanhoe, The Talisman, The Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy, The Fortunes of Nigel; died Sep 21, 1832)
- 1912 Julia Child (McWilliams) (Culinary Institute of America’s Hall of Famer: chef, author: The French Chef; TV host: Dinner with Julia; died Aug 12, 2004)
- 1923 Rose Marie (Mazetta) (comedienne, actress: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hollywood Squares, The Doris Day Show, My Sister Eileen, Ghetto Blaster, Witchboard, Memory of Us)
- 1924 Phyllis Schlafly (antifeminist; author)
- 1925 Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian) (actor: Mannix)
- 1944 Linda Ellerbee (journalist, TV co-host: Our World; Maxwell House commercials)
- 1950 Princess Anne (Mountbatten) (British royalty: daughter of Philip Mountbatten [Duke of Edinburgh] and Alexandra Mary Windsor [Queen Elizabeth II], sister of Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward)
- 1972 Ben Affleck (actor)
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