Columbia University taken over by students, 1968
Saint George died, 303
Turkish Grand National Assembly inaugurated, 1923
Boston Latin founded, 1635
More than 200 US planes struck North Vietnam, 1965
First casualty in space, 1967
Sam Ervin, ex-Senator (North Carolina), died, 1985
Soyuz 10 (USSR) launched, 1971
William Shakespeare, English playwright, died, 1616
Artificial skin first made, 1980
“America First” rally was staged in New York, 1941
Joseph Jefferson, actor, died, 1905
Charles Gates Dawes, 30th US vice president, died, 1951
Hank Aaron hit his first home run, 1954
Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial’s Music Hall, New York), 1896
William Wordsworth, English poet, died, 1850
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (“Don Quixote”), died, 1616
Otto Preminger, producer-director, died, 1986
Harold Arlen, US composer and songwriter (“Over the Rainbow”), died, 1986
Buster Crabbe, star of Flash Gordon, died, 1983