Ramadan at sighting of new moon crescent.
National HIV Testing Day
Birth anniversary of Mildred Hill (1859-1916), schoolteacher and composer of the melody to “Happy Birthday To You”—the most often sung song in the world.
Birth anniversary of Helen Keller (1880-1968).
Happy Birthday! Svetlana Kuznetsova, Tobey Maguire, H. Ross Perot
1693 - "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted 38 days.
1967 - Two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in Buffalo, NY.
1973 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" that was kept by the Nixon White House.
1985 - Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System.
2002 - In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial reports.
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