NATIONAL SCAVENGER HUNT DAY
1738 ― John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1844 ― Samuel F.B. Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (first telegraph message).
1846 ― General and furture U.S. President, Zachary Taylor, captures Monterey in the U.S.-Mexican War.
1862 ― London's Westminster Bridge across the Thames River is opened.
1883 ― The Brooklyn Bridge is opened by President Chester Arthur and NY Governor Grover Cleveland.
1915 ― Thomas Alva Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations.
1935 ― The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 on this night in 1935 in Major League Baseball’s first-ever night game, played courtesy of recently installed lights at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
1941 ― The German battleship Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive.
1943 ― On this day in 1943, the extermination camp at Auschwitz, Poland, receives a new doctor, 32-year-old Josef Mengele, a man who will earn the nickname “the Angel of Death.”
1954 ― IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour.
1958 ― Cuban President Flugencio Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.
1965 ― The U.S. Supreme Court declares a federal law allowing the post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional.
1968 ― FLQ separatists bomb the the U.S. consulate in Quebec City , Quebec, Canada.
1976 ― In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.
2001 ― Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 ― The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.
2002 ― Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty (The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty).
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, longest reigning British monarch (d. 1901)
1933 – Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014)
1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1954 ― IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour.
1958 ― Cuban President Flugencio Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.
1965 ― The U.S. Supreme Court declares a federal law allowing the post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional.
1968 ― FLQ separatists bomb the the U.S. consulate in Quebec City , Quebec, Canada.
1976 ― In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.
2001 ― Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 ― The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.
2002 ― Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty (The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty).
BORN TODAY
15 BC – Germanicus, Roman general (d. 19)
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, longest reigning British monarch (d. 1901)
1933 – Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014)
1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
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