100th birth anniversary of legendary boxer Joe Louis (1914-81).
Musical birth anniversary Motown star Mary Wells (1943-92).
Happy Birthday! Stephen Colbert, Harvey Keitel, Stevie Wonder
1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, was settled as a colony of England.
1648 - Margaret Jones of Plymouth was found guilty of witchcraft and was sentenced to be hanged by the neck.
1821 - The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust.
1865 - The last land engagement of the American Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.
1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
1917 - Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1940 - Winston Churchill made his first speech as the prime minister of Britain.
1954 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
1958 - French troops took control of Algiers.
1958 - U.S. Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1985 - A confrontation between democrat party Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. 11 people died in the fire that resulted.
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