60 – St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta. 1720 – Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory. 1763 – Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain. 1824 – Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru. 1879 – Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo. 1906 – British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design. 1952 – India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power. 1962 – U.S. airman Francis Gary Powers, captured pilot of the U-2 plane downed by the Soviet Union in 1960, was exchanged for jailed Soviet informant Rudolf Abel. 1996 – World chess champion Garry Kasparov began a six-round match against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer built by IBM, in which Kasparov claimed a 4–2 victory (though Deep Blue won a rematch the following year).
Births & Deaths:2005 – Arthur Miller—who was recognized as one of the most important playwrights of the mid-20th century, perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Death of a Salesman—died in Connecticut. 2014 – American actress and diplomat Shirley Temple—who cheered Depression-era moviegoers when she was a dimple-cheeked curly-haired child star and the top Hollywood box-office attraction from 1935 to 1939—died in California.
Sport: 1989 – To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court.
Music: 1942 – Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of “Chattanooga Choo Choo“.
TV & Film:1989 – To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court. 1993 – “Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey” airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people.
