On this day in History...

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So what happened on this day is history?

Birthdays:

Chuck Berry 1926
George C. Scott 1927
Mike Ditka (NFL) 1939
Lee Harvey Oswald 1939
Willie Horton (MLB) 1942
Keith Knudsen (The Doobie Brothers) 1952
Jean-Claude Van Damme 1960

Music History:

1957 - Paul McCartney made his debut appearance with the Quarrymen in Norris Green, Liverpool.

1964 - The Animals began their first U.S. tour.

1966 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience played its debut concert in Paris.

1967 - "How I Won the War," starring John Lennon, premiered in London.

1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana when Ringo Starr's apartment was raided by police.

1969 - The Jackson 5 made their U.S. television debut on ABC-TV's "Hollywood Place."

1974 - Mary Woodson shoots herself in Al Green's home. She shot herself after throwing a pot of boiling grits on Green when he was getting out of the bathtub.

1975 - Simon and Garfunkel reunited on "Saturday Night Live."

1990 - The City of Los Angeles declared "Rocky Horror Picture Show Day."

1992 - Lynn Anderson was released from jail after serving two days in jail in Nashville, TN for a contempt of court sentence for swearing in front of her children.

1997 - Hanson sang the national anthem at the opening game of the World Series.

1998 - Metallica performed at the Playboy Mansion.

1998 - Frank Sinatra Jr. married Cynthia McMurrey in Houston, TX.

Misc History:

1469 - Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile. The marriage united all the dominions of Spain.

1685 - King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of the Protestant population.

1767 - The Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse laid his first telegraph cable.

1860 - British troops burned the Yuanmingyuan at the end of the Second Opium War.

1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre).

1873 - The first rules for intercollegiate football were drawn up by representatives from Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities.

1892 - The first long-distance telephone line between Chicago, IL, and New York City, NY, was opened.

1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico only one year after the Caribbean nation won its independence from Spain.

1929 - The Judicial Committee of England’s Privy Council ruled that women were to be considered as persons in Canada.

1931 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died at the age of 84.

1943 - The first broadcast of "Perry Mason" was presented on CBS Radio. The show went to TV in 1957.

1944 - Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Soviets during World War II.

1944 - "Forever Amber", written by Kathleen Windsor, was first published.

1950 - Connie Mack announced that he was going to retire after 50 seasons as the manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.

1956 - NFL commissioner Bert Bell disallowed the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks.

1958 - The first computer-arranged marriage took place on Art Linkletter's show.

1961 - Henri Matiss' "Le Bateau" went on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was discovered 46 days later that the painting had been hanging upside down.

1967 - The American League granted permission for the A's to move to Oakland. Also, new franchises were awarded to Kansas City and Seattle.

1968 - Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee for giving a "black power" salute during a ceremony in Mexico City.

1969 - The U.S. government banned artificial sweeteners due to evidence that they caused cancer.

1970 - Quebec's minister of labor was found strangled to death after eight days of being held captive by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).

1971 - After 34 years, the final issue of "Look" magazine was published.

1977 - A German special forces team stormed a hijacked Lufthansa airliner and killed all four hijackers and freed 86 hostages. The Palestinian hijackers had demanded the release of members of the Red Army Faction.

1977 - Reggie Jackson tied Babe Ruth's record for hitting three homeruns in a single World Series game. Jackson was only the second player to achieve this.

1983 - General Motors agreed to hire more women and minorities for five years as part of a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

1985 - South African authorities hanged black activist Benjamin Moloise. Moloise had been convicted of murdering a police officer.

1989 - Egon Krenz became the leader of East Germany after Erich Honecker was ousted. Honeker had been in power for 18 years.

1989 - The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on a mission that included the deployment of the Galileo space probe.

1990 - Iraq made an offer to the world that it would sell oil for $21 a barrel. The price level was the same as it had been before the invasion of Kuwait.

1997 - A monument honoring U.S. servicewomen, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.

2001 - In New York, four defendants were convicted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

2001 - It was announced that a New Jersey letter carrier and an employee in the office of CBS news anchorman Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin anthrax.

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Birthdays:

Peter Max 1937
John Lithgow 1945
Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers) 1948
Lynn Dickey (NFL) 1949
Evander Holyfield 1962

Music history:

1938 - The Bob Crosby Orchestra recorded "I’m Free."

1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa was fired publicly on "Arthur Godfrey Time" by Godfrey.

1966 - The Yardbirds arrive in New York for their first U.S. tour.

1967 - "I Second That Emotion" by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles was released by Tamla-Motown.

1979 - Prince's second album "Prince" was released.

1997 - On stage at the Grand Ole Opry, Vince Gill honored John Denver. Gill played "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

1998 - George Martin, "The Fifth Beatle", retired from the music business.

1998 - Mark Nieto filed a lawsuit against Aerosmith for alleged hearing loss after he attended an Aerosmith concert.

2006 - NBC said that it had decided not to show pictures of Madonna mounting a crucifix when a concert special was aired the following month.

Misc history:

1765 - In the U.S., The Stamp Act Congress met and drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.

1781 - British General Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered to U.S. General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. It was to be the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.

1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces began their retreat out of Russia after a month of chasing the retreating Russian army.

1885 - Charles Merrill, founder of Merrill-Lynch, was born.

1914 - In the U.S., government owned vehicles were first used to pick up mail in Washington, DC.

1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.

1937 - "Woman's Day" was published for the first time.

1937 - "Big Town" made its debut on CBS.

1944 - The play "I Remember Mama" opened on Broadway. Marlon Brando made his debut with his appearance.

1944 - The U.S. Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

1950 - The United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.

1959 - Patty Duke, at the age of 12, made her Broadway debut in "The Miracle Worker." The play lasted for 700 performances.

1960 - The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.

1969 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."

1974 - The news program "Weekend" debuted on NBC.

1977 - The Concorde made its first landing in New York City.

1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a bill establishing a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

1984 - Four U.S. employees of the CIA were killed in El Salvador when their plane crashed.

1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 508 points. It was the worst one-day percentage decline, 22.6%, in history.

1989 - The Guilford Four were cleared of all charges and released after 14 years in prison. The charges were from the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford and Woolrich, England.

1989 - The U.S. Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that barred the desecration of the American flag.

1993 - Benazir Bhutto was returned to the premiership of Pakistan.

1998 - In Washington, DC, Microsoft went on trial to defend against an antitrust case.

1998 - Fires in Nigeria swept through villages killing 500 people.

1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.

2001 - Two U.S. Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan. The deaths were the first American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.

2001 - It was reported that a New Jersey postal worker and a New York Post employee had tested positive for skin anthrax.

2002 - In York, PA, former mayor Charlie Robertson was acquitted and two other men were convicted in the shotgun murder of a young black woman during race riots in 1969.

2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box that had been suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on September 5.

2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day at 12,011.73. It was the first close above 12,000.

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Birthdays:


Domenico Scarlatti 1685 - Composer

Joseph Aloysius Hansom 1803 - Architect, inventor (the hansom cab)

C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts)

Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller 1874 - Philanthropist: cofounder of New York Museum of Modern Art

H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner 1876 - Actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments)

Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich)

John S. (Shively) Knight 1894 - Reporter, editor, publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper)

Jack Sharkey 1902 - Boxer

Primo Carnera 1906 - Boxer

Mahalia Jackson 1911 - Singer

Charlie Barnett 1913 - Musician (saxophone), bandleader

Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan, Jr.) 1914 - Actor (The Kid)

Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)

Neal Matthews 1929 - Musician (Jordanaires)

John Arden 1930

Rodney "Hot Rod" Hundley 1934 - Basketball player, sportscaster

Bob Hoskins 1942 - Actor (Hook, Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

Michael Piano 1944 - Singer (The Sandpipers)

Ivan Reitman 1946

Keith Hopwood 1946 - Singer, musician (Herman's Hermits)

Pat Sajak 1947 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show)

Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York (2000-), U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008

Jaclyn Smith 1947 - Actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity)

Toby (Colbert Dale) Harrah 1948 - Baseball player

Steve (Stephen Douglas) Rogers 1949 - Baseball player

Mike (Dudley Michael) Hargrove 1949 - Baseball player, manager

Chuck Foreman 1950 - Football player

Bootsy Collins 1951

Steve (Steven Robert) Ontiveros 1951 - Baseball player

Maggie Roche 1951 - Musician (The Roches)

Keith Strickland 1953 - Musician (B-52's), Official B-52s Store

Lauren Tewes 1954 - Actress (The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders)

D.W. Moffett 1954

Rita Wilson 1958 - Actress (Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts, Runaway Bride)

Cary Elwes 1962 - Actor (Twister, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin Hood: Men in Tights)

Dylan McDermott 1962 - Actor (Twister, Steel Magnolias)

Marla Maples 1963

Natalie Merchant 1963 - Musician (10,000 Maniacs)

Thomas Cavanagh 1968 - Actor (TV: Ed)



Music History:

1685 - Composer Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was born.

1694 - Composer Johan Helmich Roman was born.

1935 - Judy Garland, at the age of 12, sang on Wallace Berry's radio show on NBC.

1959 - The Everly Brothers announced that they are considering leaving their record label.

1965 - The Beatles were awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) medals.

1971 - Al Green's "Tired of Being Alone," his first hit, went gold.

1975 - "A Chorus Line" premiered.

1978 - The Police played their first U.S. show in Boston at the Rat Club.

1980 - Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship suffers a brain hemorrhage during a recording session. After 15 days in the hospital he recovers fully.

1981 - Queen and David Bowie record "Under Pressure" in Montreaux, Switzerland.

1992 - Pearl Jam sets a new record for first week sales when the LP "Vs." sold 950,000 copies.

1993 - Catholic churches in San Juan, Puerto Rico urge residents to tie black ribbons on trees to protest Madonna's first concert there.

1994 - Roseanne Barr appeared on her TV show "Roseanne" dressed as Prince.

1998 - Eros Ramazzotti released his "Eros Live" album.

1998 - A U.S. federal judge refused to issue an injunction against the sale of MP3. The device is used to play music downloaded from the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America had brought the case to court.

1998 - Marilyn Manson began its Mechanical Animals tour in Kansas City, MO



Misc. history:

1774 - The First Continental Congress of the U.S. adjourned in Philadelphia.

1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.

1854 - Charles William Post was born. He was the inventor of "Grape Nuts," "Postum" and "Post Toasties."

1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.

1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.

1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.

1914 - Jackie Coogan was born. He became the first child to appear in a full-length movie, "The Kid."

1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.

1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight.

1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.

1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.

1955 - New York City's "The Village Voice" was first published.

1957 - The Soviet Union announced that defense minister Marchal Georgi Zhukov had been relieved of his duties.

1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.

1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey.

1967 - The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.

1970 - "Doonesbury," the comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the U.S.

1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.

1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially visit to the United States.

1977 - The experimental space shuttle Enterprise successfully landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

1980 - Israeli President Yitzhak Navon became the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt.

1984 - "Baby Fae" was given the heart of baboon after being born with a severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the animal heart.

1985 - Approximately 110,000 people marched past the U.S. and Soviet embassies in London to pressure the two countries to end their arms race.

1988 - Roussel Uclaf, a French pharmaceutical company, announced it was halting the worldwide distribution of RU-486. The pill is used to induce abortions. The French government made the company reverse itself two days later.

1988 - Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.

1990 - The U.S. State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an attack on a passenger ship or aircraft.

1990 - William S. Paley died at the age of 89. He was the founder of CBS Inc.

1990 - Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to reach 2,000 points.

1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.

1992 - General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert Stempel resigned after the company recorded its highest losses in history.

1992 - In Canada, voters rejected the Charlottetown accord, which was designed to unify the country.

1993 - Deborah Gore Dean was convicted of 12 felony counts of defrauding the U.S. government and lying to the U.S. Congress. Dean was a central figure in the Reagan-era HUD scandal.

1994 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.

1995 - Alec Baldwin got into a fight with a paparazzi in front of his home when he and his wife Kim Bassinger were bringing their first baby home from the hospital.

1995 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 500th National Hockey League (NHL) career goal against the New York Islanders in his 605th game. He became the second-fastest player to attain the plateau. Wayne Gretzky had reached 600 goals by his 575th NHL game.

1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.

1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.

2001 - It was announced that Fort Worth's Lockheed Martin won a defense contract for $200 billion over 40 years. The contract, for the "joint strike fighter," was the largest defense contract in history.

2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas killed 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were killed by the gas or gunshot wounds.