This Day In History
- 1813 Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy.
- 1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
- 1886 The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
- 1911 Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
- 1935 George Gershwin's opera ''Porgy and Bess'' opened on Broadway.
- 1938 Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
- 1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
- 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
- 1970 Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.
- 1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill authorizing the $1 Susan B. Anthony coin.
- 1985 U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.
- 1985 Actor-director Orson Welles died at age 70.
- 1998 Former defense secretary and presidential adviser Clark Clifford died at age 91.
- 1998 A New York judge awarded $185,000 in damages to a white former prosecutor who was falsely accused by advisers to Tawana Brawley of taking part in the alleged rape of the black woman.
- 2002 The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, with or without U.N. support.
- 1813 Guiseppe Verdi (composer: Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida; died Jan 27, 1901)
- 1900 Helen Hayes (Brown) (actress: Tony Award-winning actress)
- 1946 Ben Vereen (singer, dancer, Tony Award-winning actor)
- 1958 Tanya Tucker (singer)
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