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This Day In History

1712

The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

1778

British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.

1789

George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.

1849

American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.

1872

The Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.

1942

First successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.

1951

The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

1955

The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.

1962

Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

1986

TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.

1990

Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Famous Birthdays

1713

Antoine Dauvergne, French composer and violinist (d. 1797)

1863

Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)

1900

Thomas Wolfe, American writer (d. 1938)

1916

James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)

1924

Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine (d. 1993)

1925

Gore Vidal, American author (d. 2012)

1941

Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter

1944

Roy Horn, German-American magician

1954

Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues musician (d. 1990)

1959

Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
Jack Wagner, American actor and singer

1964

Clive Owen, British actor

1973

Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
Lena Headey, British actress
1978
Shannyn Sossamon, American actress, dancer and musician
1996
Adair Tishler, American actress