movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians.
Ester Dean 4/15/1986 Birth US songwriter, singer, rapper, and record producer.
Jerry Shirley 2/4/1952 Birth drummer of rock band Humble Pie.
* 2/4/2004 - Facebook a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
* 6/24/1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
Toussaint Louverture 5/20/1743 Birth Leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Kellyanne Conway 1/20/1967 Birth US political Counselor to President Donald Trump.
* 8/28/1955 - Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi galvanizing the nascent US Civil Rights Movement.
* 3/26/2006 - In Scotland the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
* 9/27/1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
* 5/25/1946 - The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
* 4/10/1991 - Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno Italy killing 140.
* 7/14/1948 - Palmiro Togliatti leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
* 1/25/1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
* 12/16/1689 - Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
Ken Kesey 9/17/1935 Birth US novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure.
* 4/10/1887 - On Easter Sunday Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
* 9/12/1940 - Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux France.
Margaret E. Knight 2/14/1838 Birth US inventor, famous as female Thomas Edison.
* 7/4/1802 - At West Point New York the United States Military Academy opens.
* 9/7/1945 - Japanese forces on Wake Island which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
* 2/14/1994 - Andrei Chikatilo a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.
* 6/24/1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia.
* 2/14/1942 - Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
* 11/26/1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
* 5/5/1862 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
* 3/11/1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
* 4/5/1944 - World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
* 5/30/1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.
* 6/24/1916 - World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
* 5/15/1800 - George III survives two assassination attempts in one day.
* 2/9/1895 - William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
* 8/13/1918 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
* 12/31/1986 - A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97 and injures 140.
* 12/6/1907 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
* 12/26/1991 - The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
* 12/16/1949 - Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget later knows as SAAB, is founded in Sweden.
* 7/24/1990 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
* 3/31/1949 - The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
* 11/11/1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
* 7/24/1938 - First ascent of the Eiger north face.
* 9/7/1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
* 11/1/1942 - Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
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