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On this day for the United States
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Events
1806 – The original
Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the
Delaware River between
Morrisville, Pennsylvania and
Trenton, New Jersey , is opened.
1835 – In the first
assassination attempt against a
President of the United States ,
Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president
Andrew Jackson , but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
1847 – Yerba Buena,
California is renamed
San Francisco .
1862 – The first
American
ironclad warship, the
USS Monitor is launched.
1911 – The destroyer
USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first
airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from
Havana ,
Cuba .
1943 – World War II: Second day of the
Battle of Rennell Island . The
USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by
Japanese
torpedoes .
1944 – World War II:
United States troops land on
Majuro .
1945 – World War II:
Raid at Cabanatuan : 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
1956 – American civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. 's home is bombed in retaliation for the
Montgomery Bus Boycott .
1964 –
Ranger program :
Ranger 6 is launched.
1971 –
Carole King's
Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
1974 –
Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near
Pago Pago International Airport in
American Samoa , killing 97.
1975 – The
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first
United States National Marine Sanctuary .
1982 –
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC
virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an
Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1989 – The American
embassy in
Kabul ,
Afghanistan closes.
1995 – Workers from the
National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for
sickle-cell disease .
Births
1754 –
John Lansing, Jr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1829)
1816 –
Nathaniel P. Banks , American general and politician, 24th
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
1844 –
Richard Theodore Greener , American lawyer, academic, and diplomat (d. 1922)
1862 –
Walter Damrosch , German-American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
1866 –
Gelett Burgess , American author, poet, and critic (d. 1951)
1882 –
Franklin D. Roosevelt , American lawyer and statesman, 32nd
President of the United States (d. 1945)
1899 –
Max Theiler , South African-American virologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1911 –
Roy Eldridge , American jazz trumpet player (d. 1989)
1912 –
Francis Schaeffer , American pastor and theologian (d. 1984)
1912 –
Barbara W. Tuchman , American historian and author (d. 1989)
1914 –
John Ireland , Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
1914 –
David Wayne , American actor (d. 1995)
1918 –
David Opatoshu , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1919 –
Fred Korematsu , American activist (d. 2005)
1920 –
Delbert Mann , American director and producer (d. 2007)
1922 –
Dick Martin , American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008)
1923 –
Marianne Ferber , Czech-American economist and author (d. 2013)
1924 –
Lloyd Alexander , American soldier and author (d. 2007)
1925 –
Douglas Engelbart , American computer scientist, invented the
computer mouse (d. 2013)
1928 –
Harold Prince , American director and producer (d. 2019)
1930 –
Gene Hackman , American actor and author
1934 –
Tammy Grimes , American actress and singer (d. 2016)
1935 –
Richard Brautigan , American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 1984)
1941 –
Gregory Benford , American astrophysicist and author
1941 –
Dick Cheney , American businessman and politician, 46th
Vice President of the United States
1945 –
Michael Dorris , American author and scholar (d. 1997)
1949 –
Peter Agre , American physician and biologist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1951 –
Charles S. Dutton , American actor and director
1955 –
John Baldacci , American politician, 73rd
Governor of Maine
1955 –
Curtis Strange , American golfer
1957 –
Payne Stewart , American golfer (d. 1999)
1959 –
Jody Watley , American entertainer
1962 –
Mary Kay Letourneau , American child rapist (d. 2020)
1964 –
Otis Smith , American basketball player, coach, and manager
1973 –
Jalen Rose , American basketball player and sportscaster
1976 –
Andy Milonakis , American entertainer
1978 –
John Patterson , American baseball player
1980 –
Wilmer Valderrama , American actor and producer
1990 –
Phillip Supernaw , American football player
Deaths
1836 –
Betsy Ross , American seamstress, said to have designed the
American Flag (b. 1752)
1838 –
Osceola , American tribal leader (b. 1804)
1926 –
Barbara La Marr , American actress (b. 1896)
1934 –
Frank Nelson Doubleday , American publisher, founded the
Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
1948 –
Orville Wright , American pilot and engineer, co-founded the
Wright Company (b. 1871)
1973 –
Elizabeth Baker , American economist and academic (b. 1885)
1980 –
Professor Longhair , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)
1982 –
Lightnin' Hopkins , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
1991 –
John Bardeen , American physicist and engineer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1991 –
Clifton C. Edom , American photographer and educator (b. 1907)
1999 –
Huntz Hall , American actor (b. 1919)
1999 –
Ed Herlihy , American journalist (b. 1909)
2001 –
Joseph Ransohoff , American surgeon and educator (b. 1915)
2006 –
Coretta Scott King , American author and activist (b. 1927)
2006 –
Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright and academic (b. 1950)
2007 –
Sidney Sheldon , American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2012 –
Frank Aschenbrenner , American football player and soldier (b. 1925)
2013 –
Patty Andrews , American singer (b. 1918)
2013 –
George Witt , American baseball player and coach (b. 1931)
2014 –
The Mighty Hannibal , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)
2014 –
William Motzing , American composer and conductor (b. 1937)
2014 –
Arthur Rankin, Jr. , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2015 –
Carl Djerassi , Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (b. 1923)
2016 –
Georgia Davis Powers , American activist and politician (b. 1923)
2018 –
Mark Salling , American actor and musician (b. 1982)
2019 –
Dick Miller , American actor (b. 1928)