On This Day…

1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his influential essay “Nature” in the US, outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism

1941 American singer and songwriter Otis Redding, one of the great soul stylists of 1960s, was born.

1942 Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon state forest, being the first and only air attack on the U.S. mainland in the war.

1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China.

1971 John Lennon releases his ‘Imagine’ album.

1976 Mao Zedong, who had led the Chinese people through a long revolution and the ruled the nations communist government from its establishment in 1949, dies.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain’s longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Via On This Day, Britannica Encyclopedia