On this day in 1893 Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.
On this day in 1825 Gioacchino Rossini‘s Il viaggio a Reims premiered.
On this day in 1821 Der_Freischütz premiered at the Schauspielhaus Berlin.
On this day in 1971 President Richard Nixon declared the “War on Drugs.”
On this day in 1946 Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theater, to run 1,147 performances.
On this day in 1844 Goodyear patented the vulcanization of rubber.
On this day in 1800 the French Army of Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy.
On this day in 1789 Elizabeth “Betsy” Hamilton, wife of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, served ice cream to George Washington at the White House.
On this day in 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York City, the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
On this day in 1509 Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon.
On this day in 1865 Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich.
On this day in 68 AD, Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
Born on this day in 1921 actress Alexis Smith.
On this day in 1909 Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
On this day in in 1654 Queen Christina abdicated the throne of Sweden and converted to Catholicism.
On this day in 1954 Your Show Of Shows last aired on NBC-TV.
On this day in 1783 the Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrated their montgolfière, or hot air balloon.
On this day in 1098, after a five-month siege, Crusaders seized Antioch.
On this day in 1981 Barbara Walters asked Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be.
On this day in 1951 the International Cheese treaty was signed.
On this day in 1893 Whitcomb Judson patented a hookless fastening device later called a “zipper.”
Born in this day in 1899 American screenwriter and producer Irving Thalberg.
On this day in 1453 Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
On this day in 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, was officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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