Today in History: Sports, movies and more
1536 Anne Boleyn and her brother George, Lord Rochford, accused of adultery and incest
1817 First private mental health hospital opens in the US, Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1862 US Department of Agriculture created
1862 Major Gen Benjamin F Butler issues order (New Orleans) that confederate women abusing union soldiers be treated as whores
1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1897 The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee is founded in Berlin by Magnus Hirschfeld, the first-ever LGBT rights organization
1905 Las Vegas founded in Nevada
1930 Ellen Church becomes 1st female airline stewardess aboard a United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne
1934 US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino, California
1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and King George VI discuss the plan for D-Day 1951 AT&T becomes the 1st US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases 7 shares worth $1,078
1957 Evangelist Billy Graham launches his “crusade” in front of 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
1972 Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland
1988 USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan
2008 California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state’s own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
Music
1963 5th Grammy Awards: I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Robert Goulet wins
1967 Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
2001 “Fiesta” single released by R. Kelly featuring Jay-Z and Boo & Gotti (Billboard Song of the Year 2001)
Movies & TV
1928 Mickey Mouse makes his 1st ever appearance in silent film “Plane Crazy”
1958 “Gigi” based on the story by Colette, directed by Vincent Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier premieres in New York (Best Picture 1959)
1968 “Wonderwall” with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
1968 Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host
1981 “Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island” airs
1987 Last episode of “The Late Show with Joan Rivers” after the host is fired by the Fox network
2002 “Bowling for Columbine”, a documentary directed by Michael Moore has its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
2009 “Farrah’s Story” documentary following Farrah Fawcett’s battle with cancer airs on NBC in the US
Sports
1862 First baseball enclosure opens at Union Grounds, Brooklyn
1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1
1948 73rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro wins aboard Citation, 2nd leg of successful Triple Crown
1953 In his first world heavyweight title defence, Rocky Marciano KOs former champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 1st round at Chicago Stadium
1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan’s 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
1991 US President George H. W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A’s-Baltimore Oriole game
2010 Jessica Watson at age 16 becomes the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world
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