Birth anniversary of Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), railroad hand, saloon keeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, miner, real estate agent.
Birth anniversaries of William Jennings Bryan, the “Silver-Tongued Orator” (1860-1925); missionary/explorer David Livingstone (1813-73)
Happy Birthday! Ursula Andress, Brent Scowcroft, Bruce Willis
1644 - 200 members of the Peking imperial family/court committed suicide.
1687 - French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico.
1831 - The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the robbery.
1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.
1920 - The U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty for the second time maintaining an isolation policy.
1931 - The state of Nevada legalized gambling.
1945 - About 800 people were killed as Japanese kamikaze planes attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan.
1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his "Nero Decree" which ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.
1977 - The last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired.
1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned from the PTL due to a scandal involving Jessica Hahn.
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