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This Day In History
1940 German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

1548 Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, dies.
1822 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.
1976 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagarism (He's So Fine)
1988 Security &Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1981 Judge Wapner &the People's Court premier on TV
1978 Keith Moon, drummer with The Who, died after taking an overdose of Clomethiazole, prescribed to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms
1838 Grace Darling helps her father, a lighthouse keeper in the Farne Islands, to rescue survivors of a shipwreck. She becomes a national heroine
1936 Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation
1896 The first auto race held at a race track takes place today in Cranston, RI.
1907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire
1735 The birth of Thomas Coutts, son of a wealthy Scottish merchant. He and his brother James founded a banking house in London
1917 The birth of Group Captain (Geoffrey) Leonard Cheshire, British airman. He was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War and he and his wife Sue Ryder founded the Cheshire Foundation Home for the Incurably Sick in 1948
1969 Jackie Stewart becomes F1 World Champion
1991 Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan
1991 Monica Seles wins the US Open
1978 While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella
1714 Treaty of Baden-French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb" (BG)
1999 A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocks Athens, Greece, killing 143 people.
1548 Catherine Parr, 6th wife of Henry VIII, died in childbirth
1931 King George V announced he would be taking a £50,000 a year pay cut while the economic crisis continued

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