This Day In History
- 1831 The first indicted bank robber in the U.S., Edward Smith, was sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison.
- 1870 Manitoba entered the confederation as a Canadian province.
- 1932 The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J.
- 1937 Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1949 The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin blockade.
- 1965 West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations.
- 1970 The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
- 1972 The album ''Exile on Main St.'' by the Rolling Stones was released.
- 1982 In Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who was trying to reach Pope John Paul II.
- 1992 Four suspects were arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots.
- 2002 Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
- 2003 Suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 26 people, including nine U.S. citizens.
- 2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers brought the Texas House to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
- 1820 Florence Nightingale (health activist, nurse: promoted the nursing profession, contributed to modern nursing procedures, founded Nightingale Training School for Nurses; author: Notes on Nursing; died Aug 13, 1910)
- 1907 Katharine Hepburn
- 1928 Burt Bacharach (Oscar-winning composer)
- 1937 George Carlin (comedian)
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