This Day In History
- 1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
- 1819 The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by Jethro Wood.
- 1897 The first section of Boston's subway system was opened.
- 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan entered Confederation as the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
- 1923 The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed 150,000 lives.
- 1932 New York City Mayor James ''Gentleman Jimmy'' Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his administration.
- 1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
- 1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.
- 1969 A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
- 1972 American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
- 1983 A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.
- 1989 Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti died of a heart attack at age 51.
- 1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs, breaking the single-season National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
- 1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer: Tarzan of the Apes; died Mar 19, 1950)
- 1922 Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) (actress: The Munsters)
- 1923 Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano) (boxer)
- 1933 Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) (songwriter)
- 1939 Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin (Emmy Award-winning comedy-writer)
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