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This Day In History

1420

Henry V of England enters Paris.

1824

United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

1885

First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).

1913

The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

1941

Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.

1955

In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1984

NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.

1990

Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

Famous Birthdays

1083

Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)

1580

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc , French astronomer, antiquary and savant (d. 1637)

1761

Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)

1792

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)

1886

Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)

1913

Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)

1933

Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)

1935

Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian

1945

Bette Midler, American actress and singer

1949

Jan Brett, American author and illustrator

1961

Jeremy Northam, English actor

1962

Joe Quesada, American comic book writer
1970
Jonathan Coulton, American musician
1971
Emily Mortimer, English actress
1986
DeSean Jackson, American football player