1199: KING RICHARD 1 OF ENGLAND IS WOUNDED BY A CROSSBOW BOLT WHILE FIGHTING IN FRANCE.
Do they even make Band Aids that big?
1401: TURCO-MONGOL EMPEROR TIMUR SACKS DAMASCUS.
For a ten yard loss. See, I can make football jokes.
1829: THE PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM PASSES THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF ACT, ALLOWING CATHOLICS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT.
As long as the Parliament cafeteria features tuna salad on Fridays.
1832: IN OHIO, A GROUP OF MEN BEAT AND TAR AND FEATHER MORMON LEADER JOSEPH SMITH.
Just a reminder of the persecution the Osmonds had to suffer.
1854: PRESIDENT JOSE GREGORIO MONAGAS ABOLISHES SLAVERY IN VENEZUELA.
It's a shame that there's no other reason to live there.
1874: MAGICIAN HARRY HOUDINI IS BORN.
And he suddenly appears.
1882: ROBERT KOCH ANNOUNCES THE DISCOVERY OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS, THE BACTERIUM RESPONSIBLE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
Okay, so now what are you going to do about that?
1887: ACTOR ROSCOE ARBUCKLE IS BORN.
It sucks that his nickname was "Fatty."
1900: NYC MAYOR ROBERT ANDERSON VAN WYCK BREAKS GROUND FOR A NEW UNDERGROUND "RAPID TRANSPORT RAILROAD" THAT WOULD LIKE MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN.
Watch the closing doors.
1902: POLITICIAN THOMAS E. DEWEY IS BORN.
Truman Wins!
1905: AUTHOR JULES VERNE DIES.
Journey to the Bottom of the Cemetery.
1911: ANIMATOR JOSEPH BARBERA IS BORN.
Paging Hanna.
1930: ACTOR STEVE MCQUEEN IS BORN.
I've read ahead and it's fitting he was born on this date. You'll see on the very next entry.
1944: IN AN EVENT LATER DRAMATIZED IN THE MOVIE "THE GREAT ESCAPE," 76 ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR BEGIN BREAKING OUT OF A STALAG.
A movie that starred Steve McQueen!!!
1958: SINGER ELVIS PRESLEY IS DRAFTED IN THE U.S. ARMY.
NO!!!!!! Said millions of teenage girls.
1976: FOOTBALL STAR PEYTON MANNING IS BORN.
I was at the very first game his brother Eli played in the pros.
1980: EL SALVADORIAN ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO IS ASSASSINATED WHILE ATTENDING MASS.
Before or after the offering basket?
1984: ACTOR SAM JAFFE DIES.
Man, woman, birth, death...okay, you can stop there.
1989: THE EXXON VALDEZ SPILLS 240,000 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL.
Okay, who's going to clean that up?
2008: BHUTAN OFFICIALLY BECOMES A DEMOCRACY.
Is that the Italian word for a prostitute?
2008: ACTOR RICHARD WIDMARK DIES.
For a brief time, he was Sandy Koufax' father-in-law.
2010: ACTOR ROBERT CULP DIES.
I No Longer Spy.
2016: COMIC GARRY SHANDLING DIES.
From a blood clot a day after taking a long plane flight. An advertisement to get up and walk once an hour while flying.
Dinner last night: Bacon, lettuce, and tomato salad.
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