This Day In History
- 1870 Author Charles Dickens died at age 58.
- 1934 Donald Duck made his first appearance (as a bit player) on film
- 1940 Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
- 1943 The U.S. Congress authorized legislation giving the green light to a withholding tax on payrolls -- the pay-it-as-you-make-it income tax.
- 1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.
- 1973 Secretariat became horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.
- 1978 Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
- 1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home when a mixture of ''free-base'' cocaine exploded.
- 1985 American educator Thomas Sutherland was kidnapped in Lebanon.
- 1986 The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
- 1993 Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada.
- 1997 Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston, who had admitted that he'd had an adulterous affair years earlier, gave up his fight to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- 1672 Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov)
- 1891 Cole (Albert) Porter (composer & lyricist)
- 1916 Robert McNamara (U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy & Johnson administrations; president of World Bank)
- 1961 Michael J. Fox
- 1963 Johnny Depp
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