100th birth anniversary of bandleader/singer Billy Eckstine (1914-93).
Birth anniversaries of US statesman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-79) and airship innovator Ferdinand Zeppelin (1838-1917).
Happy Birthday! Kevin Bacon, Anjelica Huston, Toby Keith
1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.
1693 - Uniforms for police in New York City were authorized.
1709 - Peter the Great defeated Charles XII at Poltava, in the Ukraine, The Swedish empire was effectively ended.
1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1969 - The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."
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