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845
Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under
Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1461 Wars of the Roses:
Battle of Towton:
Edward of York defeats
Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
1806 Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the
Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1847
MexicanAmerican War: United States forces led by General
Winfield Scott take
Veracruz after a siege.
1865 American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General
Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under
Robert E. Lee as the
Appomattox Campaign begins.
1867 Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the
British North America Act which establishes the
Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1882 The
Knights of Columbus are established.
1886
John Pemberton brews the first batch of
Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
1911 The
M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
1945 World War II: Last day of
V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1951
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
1957 The
New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
1961 The
Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
1971
My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant
William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1973 Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
1973 -
Dr Hook And The Medicine Show got their picture on the cover of
Rolling Stone magazine after their hit, '
The Cover of Rolling Stone' reached No. 6 on the US singles chart. According to members of the group, they really did buy five copies for their mothers, just like the song said.
1984 The
Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen
Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and
transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
1999 The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the
dot-com bubble.
2013 At least 36 people are killed when
a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
2014 The
first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
Births
1790 John Tyler (10th POTUS), 1816 10th Dalai Lama, 1867 Cy Young, 1874 Lou Henry Hoover (33rd FLOTUS), 1914 Phil Foster (Laverne's father on
Laverne & Shirley), 1918 Pearl Bailey♪ ♫, 1918 Sam Walton (founded Walmart and Sam's Club), 1919 Eileen Heckart, 1927 John McLaughlin, 1928 Vincent 'Chin' Gigante (boss of the Genovese crime family), 1939 Terence Hill, 1940 Ray Davis

(Parliament-Funkadelic), 1943 Vangelis

, 1943 Eric Idle, 1943 John Major, 1944 Terry Jacks♪ ♫(wrote/sang "
Seasons In The Sun"), 1946 Billy Thorpe♪ ♫, 1947 Bobby Kimball♪ ♫(Toto), 1948 Bud Cort, 1952 John Hendricks (founded Discovery Channel), 1955 Earl Campbell, 1955 Brendan Gleeson, 1955 Marina Sirtis ('Counselor Troi' on
Star Trek:TNG), 1956 Kurt Thomas, 1957 Christopher Lambert (
Highlander movies), 1959 Perry Farrell♪ ♫(Jane's Addiction), 1961 Amy Sedaris, 1964 Elle Macpherson

, 1967 John Popper♪ ♫(Blues Traveler), 1968 Lucy Lawless (
Xena: Warrior Princess), 1971 Lara Logan

, 1976 Jennifer Capriati
Deaths:reaper
1848 John Jacob Astor, 1912 Robert Falcon Scott, 1980 Mantovani♪ ♫, 1992 Paul Henreid, 2012 Bill 'Grumpy' Jenkins

, 2016 Patty Duke