This Day In History
- 1754 France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.
- 1914 Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
- 1926 Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.
- 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
- 1960 Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II died at age 65.
- 1972 The Republican National Convention, meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., nominated Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for a second term.
- 1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.
- 1989 Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
- 2000 An estimated 51 million viewers tuned in for the finale of CBS' reality series ''Survivor,'' in which contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.
- 2002 New York publicist Lizzie Grubman pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that injured 16 people outside a Hamptons nightclub.
- 2003 Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison.
- 1754 Louis XVI (last King of France [1774-1792]; executed Jan 21, 1793)
- 1785 Oliver Hazard Perry (American naval officer: Battle of Lake Erie: “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”; died Aug 23, 1819)
- 1934 Barbara Eden (Barbara Jean Moorhead) (actress: I Dream of Jeannie, Harper Valley P.T.A., The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao)
- 1949 Shelley Long (Emmy Award-winning actress: Cheers [1982-83]; Irreconcilable Differences, Outrageous Fortune, Troop Beverly Hills, Night Shift, Don’t Tell Her It’s Me, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Money Pit)
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