73: MASADA, A JEWISH FORTRESS, FALLS TO THE ROMAN AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS OF SIEGE, ENDING THE GREAT JEWISH REVOLT.
Everybody back to the house for bagels and lox.
1346: DUSAN THE MIGHTY IS PROCLAIMED EMPEROR WITH THE SERBIAN EMPIRE OCCUPYING MUCH OF THE BALKANS.
Didn't this guy get his own comic book?
1521: MARTIN LUTHER'S FIRST APPEARANCE BEFORE THE DIET OF WORMS TO BE EXAMINED BY THE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR CHARLES V.
Diet of worms? Anybody?
1582: SPANISH CONQUISTADOR HERNANDO DE LERMA FOUNDS THE SETTLEMENT OF ARGENTINA.
Hernando's Hideaway, ole.
1780: THE UNIVERSITY OF MUNSTER IN GERMANY IS FOUNDED.
Insert your favorite Fred Gwynne joke here.
1818: THE UNITED STATES SENATE RATIFIES THE RUSH-BAGOT TREATY, ESTABLISHING THE BORDER WITH CANADA.
How else can we play hockey with Toronto and Montreal?
1862: DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, A BILL ENDING SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, BECOMES LAW.
But who's going to do Nancy Pelosi's kitchen floor????
1881: IN DODGE CITY, KANSAS, BAT MASTERSON FIGHTS HIS LAST GUN BATTLE.
Years later, he was killed again. By low Nielsen ratings.
1889: ACTOR CHARLIE CHAPLIN IS BORN.
A genius comes into the world.
1912: HARRIET QUIMBY BECOMES THE FIRST WOMAN TO FLY AN AIRPLANE ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
At least she wasn't one of those kooks who tried to swim it.
1919: MOHANDAS GANDHI ORGANIZES A DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING IN RESPONSE TO THE KILLING OF INDIAN PROTESTERS BY THE BRITISH COLONIAL TROOPS THREE DAYS EARLIER.
What the hell did England want with this armpit of a country anyway?
1924: COMPOSER HENRY MANCINI IS BORN.
The Days of Wine and Contractions.
1927: ACTRESS EDIE ADAMS IS BORN.
Well, you know her father must have given out cigars.
1927: POPE BENEDICT XVI IS BORN.
Gone and already forgotten.
1933: JOURNALIST IKE PAPPAS IS BORN.
He was right there when Ruby shot Oswald.
1935: SINGER BOBBY VINTON IS BORN.
He wore Blue Velvet.
1939: SINGER DUSTY SPRINGFIELD IS BORN.
You don't have to say you love me.
1941: BOB FELLER OF THE CLEVELAND INDIANS THROWS THE ONLY OPENING DAY NO-HITTER IN THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL, BEATING THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX 1-0.
Tough day to be on the south side of Chicago. Actually, every day is a tough day to be on the south side of Chicago.
1945: THE UNITED STATES ARMY LIBERATES NAZI SONDERLAGER PRISONER OF WAR CAMP, BETTER KNOWN AS COLDITZ.
Colditz? Isn't that now over the counter?
1947: MUSICIAN GERRY RAFFERTY IS BORN.
Baker Street!
1947: BERNARD BARUCH COINS THE TERM "COLD WAR" TO DESCRIBE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION.
Everything cold is new again.
1962: WALTER CRONKITE TAKES OVER AS THE LEAD NEWS ANCHOR OF THE CBS EVENING NEWS.
I guess that's the way it is.
1963: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WRITES HIS LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL WHILE INCARCERATED FOR PROTESTING AGAINST SEGREGATION.
Hello, Mudda, Hello, Fatha.
1968: AUTHOR EDNA FERBER DIES.
How many book reports did this woman cause?
1990: THE DOCTOR OF DEATH, JACK KEVORKIAN, PARTICIPATES IS HIS FIRST ASSISTED SUICIDE.
You won't feel a thing.
1991: DIRECTOR DAVID LEAN DIES.
A Passage to Heaven.
2002: ACTOR ROBERT URICH DIES.
It ain't Vegas, baby.
2012: THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1977, NO BOOK WINS THE FICTION PRIZE.
Stranger than...
2013: SPORTSCASTER PAT SUMMERALL DIES.
You just know it had to be liver-related.
Dinner last night: Leftover chicken and roast vegetables.
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