EVENTS
- 1760 – George III starts his reign. George III started his reign as the King of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1854 – During the Crimean War, the Charge of the Light Brigade occurred as Lord Cardigan led the British cavalry against the Russians at Balaclava. Of 673 British cavalrymen taking part in the charge, 272 were killed. The Charge was later immortalized in the poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
- 1936 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
- 1940 – First African-American made general in US military. Benjamin Oliver Davis became the first African-American general in the United States Army.
- 1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan
- 1955 – Austria reassumed its sovereignty with the departure of the last Allied forces. The country had been occupied by the Nazis from 1938-45. After World War II, it was divided into four occupation zones by the U.S., Russia, Britain and France.
- 1962 – Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
- 1962 – Uganda joins the UN. Uganda became a member state of the United Nations.
- 1983 – The Caribbean island of Grenada was invaded by the U.S. to restore “order and democracy.” Over 2,000 Marines and Army Rangers seized control after a political coup the previous week had made the island a “Soviet-Cuban colony,” according to President Ronald Reagan.
- 1999 – PGA Golfer Payne Stewart dies when his jet loses air pressure during flight.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1881 – Pablo Picasso (Artist)
- 1912 – Minnie Pearl (Comedianne)
- 1940 – Bobby Knight (Basketball Coach)
- 1970 – Peter Aerts (Dutch kick boxer)
- 1979 – Rosa Mendes (Canadian wrestler)
- 1984 – Katy Perry (Singer)
- 1985 – Ciara Harris (Singer)
DEATHS
- 1154 – Stephen, King of England.
- 1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer (English poet)
- 1806 – Henry Knox (American general)
- 1955 – Sadako Sasaki (Japanese victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
- 1992 – Roger Miller (American singer-songwriter, actor)