Albert Brooks 1947
- 1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.
- 1587 - A second English colony was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The colony vanished under mysterious circumstances.
- 1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
- 1987 - The U.S. began its policy of escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers up and down the Persian Gulf to protect them from possible attack by Iran.
- 2003 - In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces.
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