1097 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade
1603 Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1917 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7 month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1935 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan’an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence
1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte
2020 US Justice Department sues Google for illegal monopoly over search and search advertising
Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1998 Comedian Richard Pryor is awarded the 1st ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Today in Music
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House
Today in Sport
1973 US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the 1st half of the 20th century
MORE FACTS
1955 Publication of “The Return of the King”, the 3rd and final volume of “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
1967 A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern California
Famous Weddings
1853 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21)
1943 British Children’s writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London
1949 American constitutional lawyer Phyllis Stewart (25) weds attorney John Fred Schlafly, Jr.
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