36 BC Antonia Minor (born), Greek daughter of Mark Antony (died 38 AD)
1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
1606 Guy Fawkes (died), English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (born 1570)
1673 Louis de Montfort (born), French priest and saint (died 1716)
1720 Thomas Grey (died), 2nd Earl of Stamford, English politician (born 1654)
1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1797 Franz Schubert (born), Austrian composer (died 1828)
1801 John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1872 Zane Grey (born), American author (died 1939)
1881 Irving Langmuir (born), American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
1892 Eddie Cantor (born), American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer (died 1964)
1902 Tallulah Bankhead (born), American actress (died 1968)
1902 Alva Myrdal (born), Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
1905 John O’Hara (born), American author (died 1970)
1914 Jersey Joe Walcott (born), American boxer (died 1994)
1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1915 Garry Moore (born), American comedian and game show host (died 1993)
1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1919 Jackie Robinson (born), American baseball player (died 1972)
1920 Stewart Udall (born), American politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2010)
1921 John Agar (born), American actor (died 2002)
1921 Carol Channing (born), American actress and singer
1921 Mario Lanza (born), American tenor and actor (died 1959)
1923 Norman Mailer (born), American author and journalist (died 2007)
1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1931 Ernie Banks (born), American baseball player and coach
1934 James Franciscus (born), American actor (died 1991)
1937 Suzanne Pleshette (born), American actress (died 2008)
1938 Beatrix of the Netherlands (born)
1938 James G. Watt (born), American politician, 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior
1939 Claude Gauthier (born), Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
1941 Dick Gephardt (born), American politician
1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby’s Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1944 Charlie Musselwhite (born), American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1949 These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1950 President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1954 Edwin Howard Armstrong (died), American engineer, invented FM radio (born 1890)
1955 John Mott (died), American YMCA leader, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
1956 A. A. Milne (died), English author (born 1882)
1958 Explorer program: Explorer 1 The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1970 Slim Harpo (died), American singer and harmonica player (born 1924)
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14 Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americansand allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1974 Samuel Goldwyn (died), Polish-American film producer (born 1882)
1976 Ernesto Miranda (died), American criminal, inspired the Miranda rights (born 1941)
1978 Brad Rutter (born), American game show contestant, the biggest all-time money winner on Jeopardy!
1990 The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing ofPan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2010 Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
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