1457 BC– Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account. 1705 – Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge 1746– Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart 1900– US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps. 1912 – American aviator Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, guiding her French Blériot monoplane through heavy overcast from Dover, England, to Hardelot, France. 1917 – Vladimir Lenin issues his radical “April Theses” calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution. 1948– Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris. 2003 - Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union. 2007 – In one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States, 33 people, including the shooter, were killed on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus of Virginia Tech. Births & Deaths: 1646 – Architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart, who redesigned and expanded the Palace of Versailles, was born in Paris. 1947 – American basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988), was born.
Film: 1932 - Short film “The Music Box” released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)
Music: 849 - Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera “Le prophète” premieres in Paris.
Sport: 1929 - NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers. 2003 – At age 40, Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the best player in the history of basketball, played his last game in the National Basketball Association.
