On this day

[Henry M]

Kinda quiet on this day, or maybe it's just me, but in history:

In 1515, Italian editor and printer Aldus Manutius died; he produced
the first paperbacks and invented italics.  

In 1665, Anne, queen of England from 1702-14, was born; the last of
the Stuart monarchs, she was on the throne for the union of England
and Scotland in 1707.  

In 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state of the United States.  

In 1802, Charles Wheatstone, the English physicist and pioneer of
telegraphy, was born.  

In 1804, English cleric and chemist Joseph Priestley, one of the
discoverers of oxygen, died.  

In 1838, during the Boers' Great Trek, Boer leader Piet Retief was
murdered by the Zulu king Dingane's warriors.  

In 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed under which New Zealand's
Maori population accepted Queen Victoria's sovereignty in their 
lands.  

In 1895, legendary baseball player George Herman "Babe" Ruth was 
born.  

In 1912, Eva Braun, the wife of Adolf Iitler, was born; they married 
the day before they committed suicide in their Berlin bunker in April 
1945.  

In 1922, the Washington Conference between U.S., France, Japan, Italy
and Britain ended with agreement on restricting use of poison gas and
submarine warfare.  

In 1931, Isabel Peron, the Argentine dancer who became a political
leader and followed her husband Juan as president from 1974-76, was
born.  (A former entertainer President of a country? Crazy idea!)

In 1952, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland died
and was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.  

In 1955, ELVIS PRESLEY gave his first live performance in an 
auditorium in Memphis, Tenn.

In 1958, seven members of Britain's Manchester United football team
were among 21 killed in a plane crash in Munich. Nicknamed the "Busby
Babes" after their manager Matt Busby, they were returning from a
 European Cup match.  

In 1976, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation admitted it had bribed
officials in the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and Italy.

AsB4
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