Today in History in 1871 journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa; in 1917 Loretta Walsh became the U.S. Navy’s first female Petty Officer; and in 1980 J.R. was shot on the TV show Dallas.
Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
Historical Events
1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
1963 - Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1975 - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1980 - On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
1998 - Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.
Famous Birthdays
1856 - Henry Ossian Flipper, Thomasville, Georgia, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp (d. 1934)
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1906 - John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1929 - James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
1929 - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1934 - Al Freeman Jr, Tx, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie), (d. 2012)
1962 - Matthew Broderick, actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues), born in NYC, New York
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie)
Famous Weddings
1874 - Ulysses S. Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1891 - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
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