NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY
632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières (Canada) ― A British army under QuebecGovernor Guy Carleton defeated an attempt by units from the Continental Army under the command of Brigadier General William Thompson to stop a British advance up the Saint Lawrence River valley. The battle occurred as a part of the American colonists' invasion of Quebec, which had begun in September 1775 with the goal of removing the province from British rule.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys ― Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. This tornado was part of the June 1966 tornado outbreak where 57 tornadoes were confirmed during an 11-day span.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. The Liberty was a USN Technical Research ship attacked by Isreali forces while in international waters . Israel apologized for the attack, saying that the USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
2004 – The first Venus Transit of the Sun in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
2009 – Two American journalists (Korean American Euna Lee and Chinese American Laura Ling) are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labor.
2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan.
BORN TODAY
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate―DNA (d. 2004)
1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate―DNA (d. 2004)
1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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