This Day In History
- 1819 Thomas Blanchard of Springfield, MA patented a machine called the lathe. Blanchard said it was invented for the manufacturing of gun stocks. His lathe did the work of 13 operators.
- 1909 American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
- 1939 South Africa declared war on Germany.
- 1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
- 1966 South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by a page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town.
- 1970 Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
- 1975 Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
- 1992 A man who had received a transplanted baboon liver 10 weeks earlier died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
- 1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.
- 1997 Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
- 1998 Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died at age 88.
- 2001 Mexican President Vicente Fox addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
- 2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- 2002 Meeting outside Washington D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.
- 1937 Jo Anne Worley (comedienne: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares)
- 1947 Jane Curtin (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress)
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