Birth anniversaries of Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher, and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist.
Happy Birthday! Ken Follett, Bill Moyers, Mark Wahlberg
1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
1827 - Athens fell to the Ottomans.
1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era."
1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. Weissmuller set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition.
1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.
1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.
1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.
1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.
1998 - A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.
1998 - C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press website.
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