1490s

• 1493: GREAT FIRE IN MOSCOW

1540s

• 1540: THOMAS CROMWELL WAS EXECUTED ON ORDER FROM KING HENRY VIII ON CHARGES OF TREASON
• 1540: HENRY VIII MARRIED HIS FIFTH WIFE, CATHERINE HOWARD

1750s

• DIED 1750: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (COMPOSER)

1790s

• 1794: MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE WAS GUILLOTINED, ENDING THE REIGN OF TERROR (FRENCH REVOLUTION)

1810s

• DIED 1817: JANE AUSTEN (AUTHOR)

1860s

• BORN 1866: BEATRIX POTTER (AUTHOR)
• 1866: THE METRIC SYSTEM BECAME LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES

1880s

• BORN 1887: MARCEL DUCHAMP (PAINTER)

1900s

• BORN 1907: EARL S. TUPPER (INVENTOR OF TUPPERWARE)
• BORN 1909: MALCOLM LOWRY (AUTHOR)

1910s

• 1915: U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAITI BEGAN

1920s

• BORN 1929: JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS (U.S. FIRST LADY)
• 1929: NFL ADDED A FOURTH OFFICIAL, THE FIELD JUDGE

1930s

• DIED 1934: MARIE DRESSLER (ACTRESS)

1940s

• BORN 1943: BILL BRADLEY (BASKETBALL PLAYER & POLITICIAN)
• 1943: WWII COFFEE RATIONING IN THE UNITED STATES ENDED
• BORN 1945: JIM DAVIS (CARTOONIST)
• 1945: A U.S. BOMBER FLYING THROUGH THICK FOG AT ABOUT 200 MPH CRASHED INTO THE 79TH FLOOR OF NEW YORK’S EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, KILLING 14 PEOPLE

1950s

• BORN 1958: TERRANCE STANLEY FOX (CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNER, CANADIAN HERO)

1960s

• 1965: PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON REQUESTED THAT 50,000 ADDITIONAL SOLDIERS BE SENT TO VIETNAM

1970s

• 1973: LEE MAJORS AND FARRAH FAWCETT WERE MARRIED
• 1977: FIRST OIL THROUGH THE ALASKAN PIPELINE REACHED VALDEZ MARINE TERMINAL IN ALASKA

1980s

• 1989: 255-POUND 4-OUNCE ATLANTIC HALIBUT CAUGHT NEAR GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS

1990s

• 1996: THE REMAINS OF A PREHISTORIC MAN WERE DISCOVERED NEAR KENNEWICK, WASHINGTON25 Years Ago
• DIED 1996: ROGER TORY PETERSON (AMERICAN ARTIST & ORNITHOLOGIST)

2000s

• 2002: NINE COAL MINERS RESCUED AFTER BEING TRAPPED 77 HOURS IN FLOODED QUECREEK MINE, SOMERSET, PENNSYLVANIA
• DIED 2004: FRANCIS CRICK (NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENTIST WHO CO-DISCOVERED THE SPIRAL, “DOUBLE-HELIX” STRUCTURE OF DNA)

2010s

• DIED 2013: EILEEN BRENNAN (ACTRESS)

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