This Day In History
- 1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
- 1866 Congress authorized minting of the nickel.
- 1920 Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.
- 1929 The first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
- 1946 The musical ''Annie Get Your Gun'' opened on Broadway.
- 1966 The album ''Pet Sounds'' by the Beach Boys was released.
- 1966 The album ''Blonde on Blonde'' by Bob Dylan was released.
- 1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1985 Michael ‘Air’ Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the National Basketball Association.
- 1990 Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. died at age 64.
- 1990 ''Muppets'' creator Jim Henson died at age 53.
- 1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
- 1995 Japanese police arrested doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, holding him in connection with the nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier.
- 1996 Admiral Jeremy ''Mike'' Boorda, the nation's top Navy officer, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after some of his military awards were called into question.
- 1997 Zaire's president, Mobutu Sese Seko, ended 32 years of autocratic rule, giving control of the country to rebel forces.
- 2001 Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was indicted on charges of spying for Moscow.
- 2002 The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were unearthed in Pakistan.
- 2003 Five simultaneous suicide attacks claimed the lives of 33 victims and a dozen suicide bombers in Casablance, Morocco.
- 1801 William Seward (U.S. Secretary of State: negotiated purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 [Seward’s Folly]; died Oct 10, 1872)
- 1905 Henry (Jaynes) Fonda
- 1953 Pierce Brosnan (actor: Remington Steele)
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