Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Notable Events
1509 - England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon, the first of his six wives.
1770 - Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef
off Australia.
1793 - The first patent for a stove was issued, to Robert Haeterick.
1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-
driven automobile.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh received the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded.
1942 - The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-
lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168
people.
Notable Births
1572 - Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright.
1933 - Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman), American actor and comedian.
Notable Deaths
1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, American illustrator and naturalist, and
founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
Holidays
Libya: American Bases Evacuation Day (1970).