This Day In History
- 0064 Rome burned on this day -- while Nero fiddled, literally.
- 1536 The authority of the pope was declared void in England.
- 1743 "The New York Weekly Journal" published the first half-page newspaper ad.
- 1792 American naval hero John Paul Jones died at age 45.
- 1872 Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.
- 1927 Ty Cobb hit safely for the 4,000th time in his major league baseball career.
- 1932 The United States and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
- 1940 The Democratic national convention in Chicago nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.
- 1944 Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.
- 1947 President Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which places the speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
- 1969 A car driven by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
- 1984 A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.
- 1989 Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by an obsessed fan. The killing prompted California in 1990 to pass the nation's first anti-stalking law.
- 1998 A 23-foot tidal wave along the coast of Papua New Guinea killed nearly 3,000 people.
- 1999 David Cone of the New York Yankees pitched the 14th perfect game in major league history in a game against the Montreal Expos.
- 2003 Basketball star Kobe Bryant was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman at a Colorado spa; Bryant denied the charge, saying he was only of adultery.
- 2003 The body of British scientist David Kelly, a weapons expert at the center of a storm over British intelligence on Iraq, was found _ he had committed suicide.
- 1913 Red (Richard) Skelton (Emmy Award-winning comedian)
- 1918 Nelson Mandela (Nobel Peace prize-winner [1993]; South African President; imprisoned for 28 years)
- 1921 John Glenn Jr. (astronaut: first to orbit Earth [Feb 20, 1962]; oldest to fly in space [oldest space-shuttle crew member: age 77: Oct 1998]; U.S. Senator [Ohio: 1975-1999])
- 1940 James Brolin (Bruderlin) (actor: Hotel, Marcus Welby, M.D., Angel Falls, Westworld, Von Ryan’s Express, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Fantastic Voyage, The Boston Strangler, The Amityville Horror; married to singer/actress, Barbra Streisand)
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