Today in History with Frank Haley of KDAZ AM730
| 1598 | The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots. | |
| 1775 | Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland. | |
| 1861 | After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates. | |
| 1865 | Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia. | |
| 1902 | J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. | |
| 1919 | British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre. | |
| 1933 | The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale. | |
| 1941 | German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia. | |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial. | |
| 1945 | Vienna falls to Soviet troops. | |
| 1960 | The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth’s orbit. | |
| 1961 | The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid. | |
| 1964 | Sidney Poitier becomes the first black to win an Oscar for best actor. | |
| 1970 | An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew. | |
| 1976 | The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes. | |
| 1979 | The world’s longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours. | |
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| 1721 | John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation. | |
| 1732 | Frederick Lord North, British prime minister (1770-82). | |
| 1743 | Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801-09) | |
| 1852 | Frank W. Woolworth, American retailer. | |
| 1866 | Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch. | |
| 1899 | Alfred Butts, inventor of the board game Scrabble. | |
| 1906 | Samuel Beckett, playwright, Nobel Prize winner (Waiting for Godot). | |
| 1909 | Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist’s Daughter). | |
| 1922 | John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top). | |
| 1939 | Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate. | |
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