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This Day In History

1338

The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.

1641

The Merchant Royal, carrying 100,000 pounds of gold (nearly one billion USD in today's money), 400 bars of Mexican silver (another 1 million) and nearly 500,000 pieces of eight and other coins, making it one of the most valuable wrecks of all time, is lost at sea off Land's End.

1806

Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

1846

Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

1889

Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

1909

The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

1962

The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

1986

Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

2002

The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

Famous Birthdays

480 BC

Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)

1215

Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)

1791

Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)

1861

Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)

1899

Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)

1912

Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)

1920

Mickey Rooney, American actor

1926

John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)

1930

Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)

1939

Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)

1949

Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter

1956

Peter David, American writer
1959
Jason Alexander, American actor, director, producer, writer, singer, and comedian
1961
Chi McBride, American actor