Happy 81st Birthday to Jaclyn Smith,my favorite Angel
1492 Lead (graphite) pencils are first used
1774 Minutemen organized in US colonies
1776 Benjamin Franklin departs for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution
1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opens
1861 The Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends after 19 months
1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields, leads to the formation of the Red Cross
1864 Union troops ambush and kill Bill William T. Anderson known as "Bloody Bill" near Albany, Missouri
1881 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corraloccurs, The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs between lawmen, including Wyatt Earp, and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed
1895 In a game between North Carolina and Georgia, a Tar Heels player completed a 70-year touchdown pass. Though the forward pass was still illegal at the time, the referee missed it, allowing the score to stand. Legend has it that coach John Heisman witnessed the play and spent over a decade lobbying to legalize the forward pass, which finally happened in 1906.
1909 Itō Hirobumi, Resident of Korea, former Japanese Prime Minister is shot and killed in China,can't make that chit up
1916 American sex educator Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity for advocating birth control
1918 Cecil Chubb gives the prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation
1958 Pan Am flies the first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris
1981 British rock band Queen and David Bowie release their serendipitous collaborative single "Under Pressure"
1984 "The Terminator" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn, is released in the US
2016 Jesus' supposed tomb is opened for the first time in 500 years by archaeologists for restoration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
