Most of the city of London is burned to the ground in 1212 …
Louis XVI of France declares war on Great Britain during the American Revolution in 1778 …
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Florida territory, purchased from Spain, becomes part of the United States in 1821 …
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Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States in 1832 …
Wyoming becomes the 44th state in 1890 …
In 1913, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was in Death Valley, CA at 134 degrees Fahrenheit …
The Scopes Monkey Trial begins in 1925 in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher, is accused of teaching evolution …
Howard Hughes completes a 91-hour airplane flight around the world in 1938, and sets a new record …
Telstar, the first communication satellite, is lauched into orbit in 1962 …
In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. leads a Chicago Freedom Movement rally at Soldier Field …
In 2005, Hurricane Dennis hits the Florida Panhandle …
French religious reformer John Calvin was born in 1509 … inventor and Thomas Edison arch-rival Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 … French writer Marcel Proust was born in 1871 … bootlegger Jack “Legs” Diamond was born in 1897 … boxer Jake LaMotta aka “Raging Bull” was born in 1921 … activist Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born in 1921 (d. 2009) … pro wrestler Bobo Brazil was born in 1924 (d. 1998) … actor Fred Gwynne (Herman Munster, “My Cousin Vinny”) was born in 1926 (d. 1993) … metal god Ronnie James Dio was born in 1942 (d. 2010) … tennis player Arthur Ashe was born in 1943 (d. 1993) … folk god Arlo Guthrie was born in 1947 …. Neil Tennant, of Pet Shop Boys, was born in 1954 … pro wrestler Johnny Grunge was born in 1966 (d. 2006) … British actor Peter Serafinowicz (Shaun of the Dead, Couples Retreat) was born in 1972 … actress Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”) was born in 1972 … actor Adrian Grenier (“Entourage”) was born in 1976 … singer Jessica Simpson was born in 1980 …
El Cid of Castile died in 1099 … baseball player Joe Girard died in 1956 … businessman John D. Rockefeller III died in 1978 … voice actor Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, died in 1989 …
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