Eva Peron(wife of Argentine President Juan Peron)β
Darren McGavin(actor)β
Anne Baxter(actress)β
Alex Smith(football player)β
Died
Salmon P. Chase(Chief Justice of the United States)β
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.(actor)β
Events
First inaugural ball in U.S.β
Haworth Parsonage was the recipient of the first copies of the BrontΓ« sistersβ Poemsβ
American Medical Association foundedβ
The first Naval Academy Band arrived at the United States Naval Academyβ
Wagon-mounted fire escape ladder patentedβ
The R.M.S. Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland and sank with a loss of 1,198 lives, including 139 Americans, bringing the U.S. and Germany to the brink of war (WW I)β
First exhibit by βGroup of Sevenβ artistsβ
The world’s first projection planetarium installed, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germanyβ
9.4-inch-long, 14-pound pearl reportedly collected on this day from giant clam at Palawan Island, Philippinesβ
Glenn Miller recorded βChattanooga Choo Chooβ
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President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam Warβ
Bigfoot reported seen in Hollis, NHβ
Canadian-bred Sunny’s Halo won the Kentucky Derbyβ
27th U.S. Amendment ratifiedβ
Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns was named MVP for the 2005-06 basketball season. He became the 9th player in NBA history to receive the honor in back-to-back seasonsβ
282 people carried water jugs on their heads (in Toronto), setting a world recordβ
Weather
A tornado in Natchez, Mississippi, was the most deadly and destructive in early U.S. history, killing 317 people.β
54 degrees F, Sacramento, Californiaβ
Sacramento, California, had a temperature of 105 degrees Fβ
Rochester, New York, received ten inches of snowβ