On This Date in History

1364 - Battle of Cascina
1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed
1634 - Robert Hooke, physicist and chemist
1741 – death of Antonio Vivaldi, violinist and composer
1750 – death of Johann Sebastian Bach, organist and composer
1794 - Maximilien de Robespierre is executed
1794 - Louis Antoine de Saint-Just is executed
1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
1864 - US Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church
1866 - Beatrix Potter, author
1868 - 14th Amendment to US Constitution is certified
1887 - Marcel Duchamp, artist
1901 - Rudy Vallée, singer
1907 - Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware
1914 - WWI, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 37th First Lady of the United States, journalist
1935 - First flight of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
1945 - Jim Davis, cartoonist
1947 - Sally Struthers, actress
1949 - Vida Blue, baseball player, sportscaster
1954 - Gerd Faltings, mathematician
1955 - CJ Todisco Kennedy, The Little Princess
1960 - Yōichi Takahashi, illustrator
1973 - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen
1993 - Andorra joins the United Nations
1996 - The remains of Kennewick Man, a prehistoric man, a found near Kennewick, WA

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