1519 - 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico 1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library 1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky) 1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen observes X-rays during an experiment in Germany 1904 - Harvey Hubbell receives patent for a separable electric attachment plug 1910 - William H. Frost receives patent for an electrical insect destroyer 1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch in Munich 1933 - FDR creates Civil Works Administration 1942 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa 1950 - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War 1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California 1990 - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1994 - Salvatore Sonny Bono is elected to the U.S. Congress 2002 - UN Security Council Resolution unanimously tells Saddam to disarm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1674 - John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65 1887 - Doc Holliday, gambler and gunfighter, dies at 36 1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, newspaper columnist (b. 1913) 1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60 1978 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 2011 - Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
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