EVENTS
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
- 1802 – West Point, the US Military Academy, is established.
- 1850 – The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is published.
- 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world.
- 1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket.
- 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psycho is premiered. The film starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is an all-time classic of the suspense movie genre.
Alfred Hitchcock - 1968 – During the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre occurred as American soldiers of Charlie Company murdered 504 Vietnamese men, women, and children. Twenty-five U.S. Army officers were later charged with complicity in the massacre and subsequent cover-up, but only one was convicted, and later pardoned by President Richard Nixon.
- 1968 – New York Senator Robert Kennedy announced his intention to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- 1988 – In Northern Ireland, an Ulster loyalist kills 3 people at a Provisional IRA funeral. Michael Stone was later convicted of the Milltown Cemetary attack, which was filmed by news crews.
- 1988 – A poison gas attack kills 5000 civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabjah. The war crime was in all likelihood executed on the orders of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1751 – James Madison (US President # 4)
- 1789 – George Ohm (German scientist discovered Ohm’s Law)
- 1912 – Pat Nixon (American educator, 39th First Lady of the United States)
Pat Nixon - 1917 – Samael Aun Weor (Colombian author)
- 1926 – Jerry Lewis (Actor and Comedian)
- 1949 – Erik Estrada (Actor)
- 1953 – Richard Stallman (American computer programmer)
- 1954 – Nancy Wilson (American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress)
- 1986 – Daisuke Takahashi (Japanese figure skater)
- 1989 – Blake Griffin (NBA Basketball player)
DEATHS
- 37 – Tiberius (Roman emperor)
Tiberius - 1983 – Arthur Godfrey (American radio, television host)
- 2003 – Rachel Corrie (American activist)
- 2006 – Minnie Pwerle (Australian painter)
- 2008 – Bill Brown (Australian cricketer)
