1148 ~ Crusaders attacked Damascus.

1616 ~ Cardinal Bellarmine warned Galileo to abandon the Copernican opinions.

1787 ~ The Bank of England issued the first one pound note.

1802 ~ Birthday of Victor Hugo, Poet & Novelist

1815 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba.

1829 ~ Birthday of Levi Strauss, Clothier

1846 ~ Birthday of William ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody, Scout & Showman

1932 ~ Birthday of Johnny Cash, Singer

1935 ~ RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.

1955 ~ Billboard reported that the 45rpm single format was outselling the 78s for the first time.

1993 ~ Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.

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