This Day In History
- 1775 The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
- 1792 The cornerstone of what was termed the President’s House was laid by George Washington in Washington, DC. The name, White House, was not adopted until 1818. The house, designed by James Hoban, would be three stories tall with more than 100 rooms.
- 1843 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
- 1845 Texas ratified a state constitution.
- 1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
- 1960 The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit one out in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.
- 1962 The play ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.
- 1974 TV host Ed Sullivan died at age 73.
- 1981 Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
- 1998 The National Basketball Association canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
- 1999 The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.
- 2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1754 Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) (American heroine: took over loading and firing cannon for her wounded husband during the Battle of Monmouth [American Revolution]; name became synonym for a heroine; died July 22, 1832)
- 1821 Rudolf Virchow (scientist: founded cellular pathology; died Sep 5, 1902)
- 1909 Herblock (Herbert Block) (editorial cartoonist)
- 1915 Cornel (Cornelius Louis) Wilde (actor: A Song to Remember, Sharks’ Treasure, Norseman, Omar Khayyam, The Greatest Show on Earth, Forever Amber; died Oct 16, 1989)
- 1925 Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) (comedian; films)
- 1925 Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts) (‘The Iron Lady’: British leader: Prime Minister of Great Britain [1979-1990])
- 1941 Paul Simon (songwriter, singer, musician: guitar: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; solo: Mother and Child Reunion, Me and Julio, Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Slip Slidin’ Away; LP: Graceland; Wonderful World [w/Art Garfunkel, James Taylor]; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; in film: Annie Hall)
- 1959 Marie (Olive) Osmond (singer; TV host: Donny and Marie)
- 1969 Nancy Kerrigan (Olympic ice skating medalist: [silver, 1994])
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