today in history
632 - The Prophet Mohammed died in Medina.793 - (celebrated) The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne... a set date for the raid is known.
1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George McClellan.
1942 - World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
1949 - Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder ofMartin Luther King Jr.
It's Francis Crick's (dec.) birthday. So for Babs Bush, Joan Rivers, and Bob Preston (dec.), who unforgettably played Professor Harold Hill in the music man. Kanye West turns 28 today. He has more money than you or I will ever make.
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