1380 Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow’s great monarch Dimitri defeats the Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars
1504 Michelangelo’s Statue of David is unveiled in Florence
1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan)
1565 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida
1664 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers
1941 WWII: Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; well over a million lives
1970 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Today In Film & TV
1960 Nationwide release (US) of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
Today In Music
1965 Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, “The Monkees” – 3 are chosen with Davey Jones already having been cast
2001 Kylie Minogue releases her single “I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head”, the biggest of her career
Today In Sport
1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)
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“Star Trek” 1st premieres on NBC-TV starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
