Birth anniversary of Mietek Pemper (1920-2011), who with Oskar Schindler and Itzhak Stern, saved 1,200 labor camp inmates on "Schindler's List" during WWII.
Birth anniversaries of animator/producer escape artist Harry Houdini (1874-1926), geologist John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
And happy birthday to Star Jones, Peyton Manning, Donna Pescow
1720 - In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis.
1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.
1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
1837 - Canada gave blacks the right to vote
1927 - Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.
1938 - The U.S. asked that all powers help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.
1981 - "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premiered.
1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.
1989 - The U.S. decided to send humanitarian aid to the Contras.
1993 - In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with neighboring Arab nations, was elected President.
1995 - Russian forces surrounded Achkoi-Martan. It was one of the few remaining strongholds of rebels in Chechenia.
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.
1998 - In Jonesboro, AR, two young boys open fire at students from woods near a school. Four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others were injured. The two boys were 11 and 13 years old cousins.
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