1517 | | The famous Flemish composer Heinrich Issac dies. |
1799 | | Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa, Palestine. |
1804 | | Congress orders the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana. |
1804 | | The territory of New Orleans is organized in the Louisiana Purchase. |
1827 | | German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies in Vienna. He had been deaf for the later part of his life, but said on his death bed "I shall hear in heaven." |
1832 | | Famed western artist George Catlin begins his voyage up the Missouri River aboard the American Fur Company steamship Yellowstone. |
1885 | | Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film. |
1913 | | The Balkan allies take Adrianople. |
1918 | | On the Western Front, the Germans take the French towns Noyon, Roye and Lihons. |
1938 | | Herman Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria. |
1942 | | The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland. |
1950 | | Senator Joe McCarthy names Owen Lattimore, an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy. |
1951 | | The United States Air Force flag design is approved. |
1953 | | Eisenhower offers increased aid to the French fighting in Indochina. |
1953 | | Dr. Jonas Salk announces a new vaccine against polio. |
1954 | | The United States sets off an H-bomb blast in the Marshall Islands, the second in four weeks. |
1961 | | John F. Kennedy meets with British Premier Macmillan in Washington to discuss increased Communist involvement in Laos. |
1969 | | The Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 is launched. |
1969 | | Writer John Kennedy Toole commits suicide at the age of 32. His mother helps get his first and only novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published. It goes on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. |
1979 | | The Camp David treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt. |
1982 | | Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. |
1989 | | The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin is elected. |
1992 | | An Indianapolis court finds heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson guilty of rape. |
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