1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1618 Walter Raleigh, English (died), soldier and explorer (born 1554)
1675 Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1787 Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of theWillamette River.
1886 The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1901 Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1911 Joseph Pulitzer (died), Hungarian-American politician and publisher, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (born 1847)
1921 Second trial of Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the Dedham, MA for the South Braintree robbery and murders.
1921 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1922 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1956 –Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1957 Israel’s prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1964 A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 563 carat (113 g) Star of India, the 100 caret (20 g) DeLong Star Ruby, and the 16 caret (3 g) Eagle Diamondis stolen by a group of thieves (among them is Jack Murphy “Murph the Surf”) from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1967 Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor to the Internet.
1971 Duane Allman (died) in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band, Hour Glass, Derek and the Dominos, and The Allman Joys) (born 1946)
1986 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1998 In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
2004 The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 Vaughn Meader (died), American comedian (born 1936)
2008 Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
2012 Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, leaving $50 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
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