1910 – 1st airship in service “Germany”
1940 – Hermann Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships
1944 – French troops free Elba
1955 – Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
1961 – “Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)” by Coasters peaks at #23
1961 – US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1987 – Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1992 – Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC
2017 – First full genetic study of cats published in “Nature Ecology and Evolution”, reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)
2019 – Oklahoma writer Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress