EVENTS
- 1744 – Battle of Madonna dell’Olmo begins. The battle was fought during the War of the Austrian Succession and ended with the Spanish and French victory over the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
- 1935 – The Hoover Dam, which still powers much of Las Vegas, is dedicated.
- 1938 – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to England declaring there would be “peace in our time,” after signing the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. The Pact ceded the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland to the Nazis. Chamberlain claimed the agreement meant peace, however, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939.
- 1947 – ‘The World Series’ is televised for the first time.
- 1949 – The Berlin Airlift concluded after 277,264 flights carrying over 2 million tons of supplies to the people of West Berlin, who were blockaded by the Soviets.
- 1960 – Premier of ‘The Flintstones’. The animated series ‘The Flintstones’ premiered on TV. It was set in the stone age and it detailed the lives of the Flintstone and Rubble families. It ran for 6 years until April 1 1966.
- 1966 – Botswana becomes independent. Botswana gained independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1966 – Nazi war criminals Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released from Spandau prison after serving 20 years. The prison, originally built for 600 inmates, was left with only one prisoner, former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess.
- 2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken.
- 2005 – Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishes controversial cartoon. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. The publication led to riots and protests in many parts of the world.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1207 – Rumi (Persian mystic, poet)
- 1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford (Irish composer)
- 1861 – William Wrigley Jr. (Chewing Gum Maker)
- 1924 – Truman Capote (Author)
- 1928 – Elie Wiesel (Romanian/American author, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize laureate)
- 1971 – Jenna Elfman (Actress)
- 1980 – Martina Hingis (Tennis Player)
- 1983 – Adam Jones (American football player)
DEATHS
- 1897 – Thérèse of Lisieux (French nun)
- 1941 – Alice de Janzé (American heiress)
- 1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille ( German pilot)
- 1955 – James Dean (American actor)
- 1987 – Alfred Bester (American author)