This Day In History
- 1777 American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vt.
- 1812 Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
- 1829 The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world.
- 1858 A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
- 1861 President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
- 1948 Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York City at age 53
- 1954 Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.
- 1956 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- 1960 Britain granted independence to Cyprus.
- 1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from a Detroit airport, killing 156 people; the sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl.
- 1987 Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the ''harmonic convergence,'' which heralded what believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
- 1988 Vice President George Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate.
- 1999 Vladimir Putin won confirmation (by the Russian parliament) as Russia’s fifth prime minister since early 1998. He had been appointed by Boris Yeltsin on Aug 9.
- 2000 Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Al Gore for president.
- 2002 Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
- 2003 A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a rural road in South Dakota and collided with a motorcyclist, who died in the accident.
- 2003 Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia; he was believed to have been 80.
- 1894 George Meany (labor leader: president of American Federation of Labor [1952-1979]; merged the AFL with Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]; died Jan 10, 1980)
- 1913 Menachem Begin (6th Prime Minister of Israel: signed peace treaty w/Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat [1979]; died Mar 9, 1992)
- 1925 Fess Parker (actor: Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett)
- 1930 Frank Gifford (College/Pro Football Hall of Famer)
- 1932 Eydie Gorme (Edith Gormezano) (Grammy Award-winning singer)
- 1935 Julie Newmar (Newmeyer) (actress: Batman)
- 1938 Robert Culp (actor: I Spy)
- 1946 Lesley Ann Warren (actress)
- 1953 Kathie Lee Gifford (Kathryn Lee Epstein) (talk show host: Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee; singer; married to Frank Gifford)
- 1958 Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone) (singer)
- 1960 Timothy Hutton (actor: Taps)
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