Today in History

• 1483 Raffaello Santi (Raphael), Italian painter and architect
• 1773 James Mill, philosopher, historian, economist
• 1810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
• 1866 Butch Cassidy
• 1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
• 1892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
• 1892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
• 1903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
• 1929 Andre Previn
• 1937 Billy Dee Williams
• 1937 Merle Haggard
• 1941 Philip Austin
• 1947 John Ratzenberger
• 1952 Marilu Henner
• 1976 Candace Cameron

• 648 BC Earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks is observed
• 1663 Kings Charles II signs Carolina Charter
• 1672 Comte de Frontenac, is first appointed governer of New France
• 1862 Battle of Shiloh.
• 1868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
• 1896 First modern Olympics
• 1906 First animated cartoon copyrighted
• 1909 First credit union established in US
• 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
• 1917 US declares war on Germany (WWI)
• 1926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
• 1957 New York City ends trolley car service.
• 1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite