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By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP and UPI
1016: Canute, King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’.
1523: Amsterdam bans the assembly of heretics.
1648: The Parliamentary army captures Charles I.
1667: Author and satirist Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin.
1678: Roman Catholics are banned from Parliament.
1731: A series of earthquakes struck China. More than 100,000 people died.
1776: Captain James Cook begins his third and last trip to the Pacific.
1782: Britain signs an agreement recognising US independence.
1803: Spain cedes claims to Louisiana Territory to France.
1835: Samuel Langhorne Clemens _ better known as Mark Twain _ was born in Florida, Missouri.
1838: Mexico declares war on France.
1872: In the first international soccer game, Scotland draws 0-0 with England in Glasgow.
1874: British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace.
1876: The golden funerary “Mask of Agamemnon” was pulled from the remains of a tomb on Mycenae by archeologist Heimlich Schliemann in one of the most famous archeologial finds in history, not least because a debate on the authenticity of the mask remained heated for most of the 20th century. Today, the mask as a hammered gold artifact of ancient Mycenae is well-accepted, however it’s believed to predate the period of the Trojan War by about 400 years, making it the mask of someone else.
1886: The Folies Bergère stages its first revue in Paris.
1900: Writer Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.
1902: Wild west outlaw Kid Curry Logan is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour.
1909: The House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George’s “People’s Budget”, which tried to shift the tax burden onto the wealthy.
1913: Charles Chaplin made his screen debut in Mack Sennett’s short film Making a Living.
1924: The first photo facsimile is transmitted by radio across the Atlantic from London to New York.
1931: His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI.
1936: London’s famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, was destroyed in the most spectacular fire seen in Britain for many years. It started about 8 pm and spread with such amazing rapidity that within half an hour the great building was ablaze from end to end. Flames rose 300-ft despite the efforts of 90 engines and 500 firemen. Only the two towers escaped destruction. When built, constructed mainly of glass and iron, it was nicknamed “The Crystal Palace” by Punch magazine. Within the Crystal Palace was a large concert hall which could accommodate audiences of at least 4000 people.
1939: The USSR invades Finland and bombs Helsinki.
1940: Actress Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Connecticut.
1944: Launch of Britain’s biggest battleship HMS Vanguard.
1948: The Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin.
1950: US President Harry Truman threatens China with the atom bomb.
1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, USA, Ann Hodges, 32, was bruised on the arm and hip by a meteorite that fell through the roof of her house into her living room. It smashed the case of her wooden radio and struck her as she lay resting on her sofa. The 9-lb (4-kg), 6 in (15 cm) diameter fragment came from a larger, likely more than 150-lb, chondrite meteorite that exploded over central Alabama about 2 pm, according to reports from people in several states that saw a bright flash across the sky. This remains (2006) the only recorded instance of a person being hit by a meteorite. She donated it in 1956 to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, and it is known by her name as the Hodges Meteorite.
1957: An assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno kills eight.
1960: The last DeSoto was built by Chrysler, which had decided to retire the brand after 32 years.
1961: The USSR vetoes Kuwait’s application for UN membership.
1962: U Thant of Burma becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1963: The Beatles second album With The Beatles became the first million selling album by a group in the UK. The album stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that The Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks.
1966: Barbados gains independence from Britain.
1967: The Pakistan People’s Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
1968: The Trade Descriptions Act comes into force which makes it a crime for any trader to knowingly sell an item with a misleading label or description. On the same day, a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary because of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting.
1972: An Illegal fireworks factory in Rome explodes, killing 15.
1975: Israel pulled out of a 93-mile-long corridor along the Gulf of Suez as part of an interim peace agreement with Egypt. Israel captured oil fields along the corridor in the 1967 Six-Day War with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. On the same day, Dahomey is renamed the People’s Republic of Benin.
1981: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe.
1982: A letter bomb sent by animal activists explodes inside 10 Downing Street, injuring a member of staff. On the same day, the Michael Jackson album “Thriller” was released by Epic Records. Also, the motion picture “Gandhi,” starring Ben Kingsley as the Indian nationalist leader, had its world premiere in New Delhi.
1988: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. was declared the winner of the corporate free-for-all to take over RJR Nabisco Inc. with a bid of $24.53 billion.
1989: Serial killer Aileen Wuornos killed her first of seven victims in Volusia County, Fla., Richard Mallory. She claimed self-defense, but was convicted of murder and executed in 2002.
1990: Film star Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke.
1993: President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law, the most far-reaching nationwide gun control measure enacted in a decade. It was named after White House press secretary James Brady, who was injured in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
1994: Almost 1,000 passengers and crew are forced to abandon the liner Achille Lauro after it catches fire in the Indian Ocean.
1995: Bill Clinton becomes the first serving US president to visit Northern Ireland, getting a rapturous welcome by both Catholics and Protestants.
1996: Singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) dies from a heart attack on stage while playing his hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips at a club in Minneapolis.
2002: High Court probate records showed that George Harrison left his fortune of £99m in a trust to his wife Olivia and his son Dhani, depriving the taxman of £40m. His English mansion near Henley-on-Thames was said to be worth £15m.
2005: Actor David Jason marries Gill Hinchcliffe a day before receiving his knighthood from the Queen.
2007: An Atlasjet Airlines plane crashed near the Ispart, Turkey, airport, killing all 56 people aboard. On the same day, motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel dies of pulmonary disease aged 69.
2010: The Obama administration announced that all 197 airlines that flew to the U.S. had begun collecting names, genders and birth dates of passengers so the government could check them against terror watch lists before they boarded flights.
2013: A fiery car crash in Southern California killed actor Paul Walker, 40, and his friend, Roger Rodas. Walker was perhaps best-known for his starring role in the The Fast & the Furious movie series.
2017: A jury found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier, a shooting that touched off a fierce national immigration debate. (Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who had been deported five times, did not deny shooting Kate Steinle but said it was an accident. He was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm.)
2018: Former President George H.W. Bush died at his home in Houston, six months after the passing of his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush. At the time of his death, he was the longest lived U.S. president in history.
2021:The Biden administration moved to toughen testing requirements for international travelers to the U.S., including both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, amid the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
2021: Barbados removed Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, becoming a republic on the 55th anniversary of its independence. On the same day, Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old sophomore, opened fire at a Michigan high school, killing four students and wounding seven other people; school staff had discovered his violent drawings but his parents wouldn’t remove him from school. (The parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, are accused of making the gun accessible and ignoring their son’s mental health needs; they face charges including involuntary manslaughter.)
Today’s birthdays: Country singer-record company executive Jimmy Bowen is 85. Director Ridley Scott is 85. Writer-director Terrence Malick (“The Thin Red Line”) is 79. Bassist Roger Glover of Deep Purple is 77. Singer-actor Mandy Patinkin is 70. Guitarist Shuggie Otis is 69. Country singer Jeannie Kendall of The Kendalls is 68. Singer Billy Idol is 67. Guitarist John Ashton of Psychedelic Furs is 65. Comedian Colin Mochrie (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) is 65. Rapper Jalil of Whodini is 59. Actor-director Ben Stiller is 57. DJ Steve Aoki is 45. Singer Clay Aiken (“American Idol”) is 44. Actor Elisha Cuthbert (“24”) is 40. Actor Kaley Cuoco (“The Big Bang Theory”) is 37. Model Chrissy Teigen is 37. Actor Christel Khalil (“The Young and the Restless”) is 35. Actor Rebecca Rittenhouse (“The Mindy Project”) is 34. Actor Adelaide Clemens (“Rectify”) is 33. Actor Tyla Harris (“For Life”) is 22.
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