Today in Film & TV
- 1945 “Mildred Price” starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand
Today in Music
- 1968 Beatles’ “Hey Jude” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
Today in Sport
- 1938 Homer in the Gloamin’ – famous walk-off home run hit by Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs against the Pittsburgh Pirates
Significant Events
- 935 Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia
- 1066 William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex
- 1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin siege of Yorktown
- 1887 Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history
- 1939 German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR
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