1791
Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1946
Twenty-two Nazi leaders were found guilty at the Nuremberg trials.
1949
The Berlin Airlift came to an end.
1955
Actor James Dean was killed in a car crash.
1966
Botswana gained its independence from Great Britain.
“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood — the virtues that made America.”
Teddy Roosevelt
1399
King Richard II became the first English monarch to abdicate his throne.
1829
Sir Robert Peel’s police force, the “bobbies,” began operations at Scotland Yard.
1978
John Paul I died one month after becoming pope.
1982
Seven people died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. This led to the use of safety seals on most consumer products.
1988
The space shuttle Discovery was launched, the first American staffed space flight since the Challenger disaster.
“The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
Will Rogers