100th birth anniversary of agricultural scientist, plant pathologist/geneticist and Nobel Prize recipient Norman Borlaug (1914-2009). Initiated the "Green Revolution."
Happy Birthday! Aretha Franklin, Elton John, James Lovell, Danica Patrick
1774 - English Parliament passed the Boston Port Bill.
1900 - The U.S. Socialist Party was formed in Indianapolis.
1901 - The Mercedes was introduced by Daimler at the five-day "Week of Nice" in Nice, France.
1902 - In Russia, 567 students were found guilty of "political disaffection." 95 students were exiled to Siberia.
1911 - In New York City, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.
1919 - The Paris Peace Commission adopted a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.
1941 - Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.
1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production.
1966 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the "poll tax" was unconstitutional.
1983 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S. social security system from bankruptcy.
1988 - Robert E. Chambers Jr. pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. The case was known as New York City's "preppie murder case."
1989 - In Paris, the Louvre reopened with I.M. Pei's new courtyard pyramid.
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