Birth anniversary of Henry Clay (1777-1852), US statesman and three-time presidential candidate.
And happy birthday to Shannon Doherty, Dan Lauria, David Letterman
1606 - England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.
1770 - The British Parliament repealed the Townsend Acts.
1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
1864 - Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there. He was a pledged delegate from Tennessee to the New York Democratic national convention of 4 July 1868
1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.
1916 - American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clashed at Parrel, Mexico.
1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.
1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.
1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns. They were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted.
1989 - In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were issued for the first time since World War II. The ration was prompted by a sugar shortage.
1992 - Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.
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