International Tiara Day
100th birth anniversary of actress Lili Palmer (1914-86).
Happy Birthday! Gary Burghoff, Bob Dylan, Patti LaBelle
1816 - Emamual Leutze was born in Germany. He was most famous for his paintings "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "Columbus Before the Queen".
1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the U.S. began service.
1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America's first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was "What hath God wrought?"
1878 - The first American bicycle race was held in Boston.
1883 - After 14 years of construction the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic.
1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.
1950 - ‘Sweetwater’ (Nat) Clifton’s contract was purchased by the New York Knicks. Sweetwater played for the Harlem Globetrotters and became the first black player in the NBA.
1961 - The Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi.
1983 - The Brooklyn Bridge's 100th birthday was celebrated.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations with China. China was not happy about some of the human rights conditions that had been attached by the U.S. lawmakers.
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