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Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Arbela 959 - Edgar becomes king of all England 965 - John XIII becomes Pope 1701 - Matthieu Garigue received by French Reformed Church of The Hague 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam 1791 - First session of the French National Assembly 1795 - Belgium conquered by France 1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via Treaty of San Ildefonso 1811 - First steamboat to sail the Mississippi arrives in New Orleans 1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards 1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison 1885 - United States begins special delivery mail service. 1887 - Baluchistan conquered by British Empire 1890 - Yosemite National Park established by United States Congress 1891 - In California, Stanford University open its doors 1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews are expelled from major Russian cities 1903 - Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. 1908 - Ford introduces Model T car 1910 - In downtown Los Angeles, California, a large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 20. 1918 - Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence capture Damascus 1928 - Soviet Union introduces first five-year plan. 1931 - George Washington Bridge links New Jersey and New York 1936 - Francisco Franco named head of the Nationalist government of Spain 1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland 1943 - Naples falls to Allied soldiers 1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials 1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong 1949 - First rectangular television tubes manufactured by Kimble Glass 1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on paper currency 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA 1959 - Acme Refrigeration incorporated by Adrian Kaiser 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom 1960 - Cyprus gains independence from the United Kingdom 1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon 1961 - Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season. 1962 - Johnny Carson becomes host of NBC's Tonight Show 1963 - California State Board of Education created. 1964 - Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. 1964 - Japanese bullet train begins service from Tokyo to Osaka 1965 - Suharto crushes attempted coup in Indonesia 1968 - BGBS taken over by Guyana Government 1969 - Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time 1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida 1975 - Seychelles gain internal self-government 1975 - Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name Tuvalu 1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires 1979 - United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama 1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence. 1982 - Epcot Center opens at Walt Disney World 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev named head of the Supreme Soviet 1998 - ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names. Births 1207 - Henry III of England 1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer 1881 - William Boeing, engineer 1885 - Louis Untermeyer, author († 1977) 1876 - Huynh Thuc Khang, Vietnamese politician 1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist 1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist († 1989) 1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian physicist 1909 - Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles, California († 1998) 1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw († 1934) 1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor († 2000) 1921 - James Whitmore, actor 1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States 1924 - William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States 1926 - Roger Williams, pianist 1927 - Tom Bosley, actor 1928 - George Peppard, American actor († 1994) 1928 - Laurence Harvey, actor († 1973) 1930 - Sir Richard Harris, actor 1935 - Julie Andrews, British actress and singer 1936 - Stella Stevens, actress 1946 - Tom O'Brien, American author 1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author 1950 - Randy Quaid, actor 1954 - Martin Strel, Slovene ultra marathon swimmer 1963 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player Deaths 1404 - Pope Boniface IX 1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author 1864 - Rose Greenhow, Confederate spy 1876 - James Lick, California land baron 1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir 1929 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor 1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer 1955 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood 1980 - George Meany, American trade union leader 1985 - E.B. White, American author 1992 - Petra Kelly, German Green politician Holidays and observances Nigeria - National Day Tuvalu - Independence Day People's Republic of China - National Day In San Marino, two captain regents, elected by parliament, take office for six months. Saint Thérèse de Lisieux See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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