1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1893 - Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1917 - British battleship Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804
2002 - The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 4 of 212
Clarence Campbell
Courtney Love
OJ Simpson
Tom HanksFamous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 5 of 111735 - Author, poet, critic and lexicographer and writer of the first English dictionary Dr. Samuel Johnson (25) marries the widow Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 21 years his senior.
1842 - American writer "The Scarlett Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne (38) marries painter and illustrator Sophia Peabody (33) in the Peabody's home, Boston
1952 - American educator, Presbyterian minister and TV host Fred Rogers (24) weds Sara Joanne Byrd
1952 - Country singer June Carter Cash (23) weds singer Carl Smith (25)
1966 - Major League Baseball pitcher Tom Seaver (21) weds Nancy Lynn McIntyre
Famous Divorces
Divorces 1 - 2 of 21540 - English King Henry VIII annuls his 6 month marriage to his 4th wife Anne of Cleves, on the grounds of non-consummation and her pre-contract to Francis of Lorraine
2007 - Former contestant on "The Apprentice" and beauty queen Jennifer Murphy (28) divorces "Extreme Makeover" Bill Dorfman (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 1 year of marriage
Amedeo Avogadro
Earl Warren
Eugen Fischer
Zachary Taylor
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