- 1775] Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on their ride from Charlestown to Lexington (MA) to warn the colonists that those nasty Redcoats were coming...
- 1846] The telegraph ticker is patented by R. E. House who would become? A household name...
- 1895] New York State passes an act that establishes free public baths. The Village People are booked as the opening act...
- 1906] San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake that takes 3,000 lives...
- 1923] John Philip Sousa's band plays the national anthem as Yankee Stadium opens in the Bronx. The Yankees beat the Red Sox in the opener 4-1...
- 1945] 'Happy Trails': American war correspondent Ernie Pyle is killed by Japanese gunfire off Okinawa. Pyle was 44...1955] Albert Einstein dies of an aortic aneurysm in Princeton (NJ) at 76. The rumors about Einstein's brain being preserved are true. They were used to study his genius...2002] Norwegian adventurer (Kon-Tiki) Thor Heyerdahl dies from cancer at 87...
- 1934] The first men's sock is lost as the first laundromat opens in Fort Worth (TX)...
- 1983] The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is blown up by a suicide car bomber killing 62 including 17 Americans...
- 1994] Former President Richard M. Nixon suffers a stroke which he will never fully recover from...
- 2002] Police arrest actor Robert Blake in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley one year earlier. Blake will be acquitted but is found liable in a civil case...2003] Scott Peterson is arrested in the death of his wife, Laci, who was 8 months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve, 2002. Peterson was sentenced to death and is currently on death row at San Quentin...
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