Military Spouse Appreciation Day
Birth anniversary of James M. Barrie (1860-1937), playwright and author, creator of Peter Pan.
Birth anniversary of William Moulton Marston (1893-1947), psychologist who invented the lie detector and created the Wonder Woman comic books.
Birth anniversary of journalist and broadcaster Mike Wallace (1918-2012).
Happy Birthday! Candice Bergen, James L. Brooks, Albert Finney, Glenda Jackson, Billy Joel
1429 - Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans.
1785 - Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle.
1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.
1941 - British sailors captured an Enigma machine from a disabled German U-110 submarine. The acquisition was kept secret as Allied cryptographers started work on Axis codes.
1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. 35 motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
1987 - Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers were married.
1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.
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