1605 The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby’s plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.
1831 Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1855 Eugene V. Debs (born), American politician (died 1926)
1872 In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1892 J. B. S. Haldane (born), English-Indian geneticist (died 1964)
1895 George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1911 Roy Rogers (born), American singer, guitarist, and actor (Sons of the Pioneers) (died 1998)
1913 Vivien Leigh (born), English actress (died 1967)
1941 Art Garfunkel (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel)
1943 Bombing of the Vatican.
1946 Gram Parsons (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and International Submarine Band) (died 1973)
1977 Guy Lombardo (died), Canadian-American violinist and conductor (born 1902)
1979 Al Capp (died), American cartoonist (born 1909)
1989 Vladimir Horowitz (died), Russian pianist (born 1903)
2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
2006 Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi’as in 1982.
2009 US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 29 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation.
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