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Today in History:
43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid.
1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1775 - The first abolition society in the North America is established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia, U.S. by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, U.S. for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, U.S..
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1881 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, U.S..
1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives.
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1935 - Babe Ruth plays his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, U.S..
1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois, U.S..
1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1964 - A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
1968 - At the U.S. Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar..
1981 - STS-1 - The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102), lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its first test flight.
1986 - 2.2 pound (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1994 - In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich filed a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually led the movement against file-sharing programs.
Happy Birthday:
1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
1935 - Loretta Lynn, American singer/songwriter
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist
1960 - Brad Garrett, American actor
1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
Deaths:
1759 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
1990 - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid.
1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1775 - The first abolition society in the North America is established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia, U.S. by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, U.S. for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, U.S..
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1881 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, U.S..
1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives.
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1935 - Babe Ruth plays his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, U.S..
1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois, U.S..
1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1964 - A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
1968 - At the U.S. Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar..
1981 - STS-1 - The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102), lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its first test flight.
1986 - 2.2 pound (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1994 - In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich filed a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually led the movement against file-sharing programs.
Happy Birthday:
1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
1935 - Loretta Lynn, American singer/songwriter
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist
1960 - Brad Garrett, American actor
1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
Deaths:
1759 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
1990 - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
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