This Day In History
- 1607 The English colony at Jamestown, Va., was settled.
- 1842 Composer Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London.
- 1846 The United States declared that a state of war existed against Mexico.
- 1914 Boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Ala.
- 1917 Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
- 1940 Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as prime minister.
- 1958 Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1985 Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
- 2003 The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
- 1950 Stevie Wonder (Stevland Morris)
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