1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (born), American activist (died 1902)
1892 William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for theAllegheny Athletic Association.
1912 The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1934 Charles Manson (born), American cult leader and murderer
1936 In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the “Jewish homeland”, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1944 Booker T. Jones (born), American musician, songwriter, and producer (Booker T and the MG’s and The Mar-Keys)
1948 In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
1969 My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1970 The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.
1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1997 Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2011 Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
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