Dress rehersal for “Pirates of Penzance” (New York), 1879
Dr. Jose Rizal martyred, 1896
Robert Boyle, Irish physicist, chemist, and author, died, 1691
Ling-Ling, giant panda, died, 1992
First Los Angeles freeway dedicated (Arroyo Seco Parkway), 1940
“Monitor” sank in a storm, 1862
Exxon withdrew from South Africa because of racial policies, 1986
American Metrological Society formed, 1873
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley married, 1816
Bombing of North Vietnam ordered halted, 1972
Mack David, songwriter (theme song to “Cinderella”), died, 1993
Iroquois Theater fire (Chicago) (up to 602 died), 1903
First ballistic missile submarine commissioned (George Washington), 1959
US paid Mexico $10 million for Arizona-New Mexico, 1853
Amelia Jenks Bloomer, social reformer for whom the female undergarment was named, died, 1894
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, doctor and botanist, died, 1723
Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year in 71 years with no lynchings in US, 1952
Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate” opened on Broadway, 1948