150th birth anniversary of German composer Richard Georg Strauss (1864-1949).
Birth anniversary of undersea explorer and Oscar-winning filmmaker Jacques Cousteau (1910-97):“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
Birth anniversaries of Ben Jonson (1572-1637), Vince Lombardi (1913-70), William Styron (1925-2006).
Happy Birthday! Adrienne Barbeau, Joe Montana, Jackie Stewart
1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.
1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.
1880 - Jeanette Rankin was born. She became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.
1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
1934 - The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.
1937 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.
1947 - The U.S. government announced an end to sugar rationing.
1982 - Steven Spielberg's movie "E.T." opened.
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1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.
1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.
1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.
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