1714 ~ Birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer

1859 ~ Birthday of Kenneth Grahame, Author of “The Wind In The Willows”.

1930 ~ Mahatma Gandhi began civil disobedience campaign in India.

1934 ~ Edwin Hubble photo showed as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars.

1942 ~ Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.

1943 ~ Birthday of Lynn Redgrave, Actress.

1965 ~ First U.S. combat forces arrived in Vietnam.

1971 ~ Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali for the World Heavyweight Boxing title.

1979 ~ Volcanoes on Io discovered y Voyager 1.

1983 ~ President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire".

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