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American Revolution
on this day 1776, News reached London that the Americans had drafted the declaration of Independence. -
General Interest
1793,after more than two centuries as royal palace, the Louvre is opened as public museum in Paris by the French Revolutionary government. -
Presidential
1874, future president Herbert Hoover is born on this day in 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. After being tragically orphaned at the age of nine. -
Literary
1912, ON this day, Virginia Stephen, 30, married Leonard Woolf, 31, at a registry office in London. -
Music
1937, Versatile, inexpensive and relatively easy to play, the acoustic guitar was a staple of American rural music in the early 20th century, particularly black rural music such as the blues. -
Automobile
on this day 1978, three teenage girls die after their 1973 Ford Pinto in rammed from behind by a van and burst into flames on an Indiana highway. -
Sports
1981, Pete Rose if the Philadelphia Phillies gets the 3,631st hot of baseball career, breaking Stan Musial’s record for most hits by a National Leaguer. -
Crime
1981, The severed head of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, who disappeared from a shopping mall two weeks earlier, is found in a canal in Vera Beach, FLorida. -
HollyWood
1984, the action thriller Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze, opens in theaters as the first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating. -
Disaster
1993, a rare collision of three ships in Tampa Bay, florida, results in a spill of 336,000 gallons of fuel oil on the day in 1993.