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1066 - In the Battle of Hastings, King Harold of England was defeated and killed by Duke William of Normandy's troops.

1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland heavily defeated King Edward II of England at Byland, north of York. Edward was thus forced to accept the independence of Scotland.

1705 - The English navy captured Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession.

1806 - Napoleon defeated the Prussians and Saxons at the battles of Jena and Auerstadt in Saxony. He completed his conquest of Prussia within six weeks.

1809 - The Treaty of Vienna was signed, Austria ceded Trieste and Illyria to France, Galicia to Poland and Russia and Inn District to Bavaria.

1854 - The world's first baby show was held at Springfield, Ohio.

1912 - United States President Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin in Milwaukee. He was saved by his thick coat and a bundle of manuscript paper in his breast pocket.

1913 - Britain's worst mining disaster occurred as the result of an explosion at the Universal Colliery in Glamorgan, Wales, killing 439.

1928 - James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison married at the first, experimental, televised wedding in Des Plains, Illinois. They were broadcast from a radio studio.

1930 - In the Broadway show "Girl Crazy," "I Got Rhythm", by Ethel Merman, was a show-stopper. Merman made her Great White Way debut with this show, launching her stellar career. The show lasted for 272 performances.

1933 - Nazi Germany announced it would withdraw from the League of Nations and would take no further part in the Geneva Disarmament Conference.

1934 - The "Lux Radio Theater" aired on the NBC Blue radio network. The show was also known as "Lux Presents Hollywood" and featured almost every Hollywood star over the next thirty years on the program. "Lux Radio Theater" adapted novels, Broadway plays and Hollywood film into radio dramas.

1938 - One of the big band era's best songs was recorded by Bob Crosby, brother of singer Bing Crosby, and The Bob Cats. Decca Records' "Big Noise from Winnetka" featured Bob Haggart on whistling and bass, and Ray Bauduc on the drums.

1939 - The British Navy battleship "Royal Oak" was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in Scapa Flow Bay, North Scotland, with the loss of over 800 lives

1939 - As competition for the ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers), the Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was organized. The goal of two music licensing organizations is to ensure composers, artists and publishers are properly paid for use of their works.

1941 - The last session by the original Carter Family took place on this date, and the Family disbanded in two years later. More than 250 of their songs, including their signature song, "Sunny Side of Life", were recorded over a 19-year period, and the successful country group continued for several years after A.P. and Sara Carter divorced.

1944 - Erwin Rommel, the ``Desert Fox'' famous for his spectacular victories as commander of the Afrika Corps in World War Two, took cyanide tablets and died before he was to be arrested for making contact with anti-Hitler conspirators.

1944 - British and Greek troops liberated Athens, which had been in German hands since April 1941.

1947 - Flying in an army rocket-powered research plane, United States Air Force Captain Charles Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier.

1954 - In Egypt, filming began on the movie with a cast of 25,000, the C.B. DeMille epic, "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton Heston.

1955 - "Ethel and Albert", one of the few televsion shows to air on all three major United States networks, moved to ABC-TV. Starring Alan Bunce and Peg Lynch, the had formerly been on NBC and CBS. In the 1940s, it was a popular radio show that got another chance on television for 3 years.

1955 - Comedian Zero Mostel denied that he was a Communist while being questioned at a House Un-American Activists Subcommittee hearing on this date. He invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid implicating himself as to ever being a Communist.

1961 - "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" opened on Broadway.

1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr., the youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize received his $54,000 award today. King donated the money to support civil rights in the United States.

1971 - On "The Dick Cavett Show" on ABC, it was all about John Lennon and Yoko Ono when the couple promoted John’s new LP and film both called "Imagine". They also plugged Yoko’s book, two films and a fine arts show.

1972 - Kung Fu, starring David Carradine, debuted on ABC. The popular martial arts drama, set in the late 1800s, co-starred Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, and Radames Pera.

1973 - The Thai government of Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn was forced to resign after the army refused to use force to disperse student protesters.

1973 - Scottish race car driver Jackie Stewart announced he was retiring from auto racing, but would become a race commentator for ABC-TV.

1984 - George "Sparky" Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues, when his Detroit Tigers beat the Padres 8-4. Not since 1927 had a team leading its division since the first day of the season won the World Series.

1987 - One of the first media frenzies over an event that didn't impact the safety an entire nation, occurred when rescuers came to get 8-month-old Jessica McClure out of an abandoned well in her backyard. It took two and a half days to free her.

1988 - Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist ranked by critics alongside literary giants such as Dickens, Zola and Dostoyevsky, became the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel literature prize.

1989 - Election posters and banners blossomed in Jordan at the start of a campaign for the kingdom's first parliamentary poll in 22 years.

1991 - Tens of thousands of jubilant Bulgarians crammed the center of Sofia to celebrate the end of the Communist Party's four-decade grasp on power.

1991 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, held under house arrest for more than two years by her country's military rulers, won the Nobel Peace Prize.

1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

1995 - A judge ordered Italy's former prime minister, media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on corruption charges.

1995 - An armed gunman seized control of bus of tourists in Moscow's Red Square. The next day commandos stormed the bus freeing the four remaining hostages and killing the gunman.

1996 - Madonna, "The Material Girl," became the headlined "Maternal Girl" when she gave birth to a baby girl. Little information about the Los Angeles birth of Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon was given to the press. Carlos Leon, a personal trainer and Madonna's steady beau, was the baby's father. Madonna, who had said a year earlier, tongue-in-cheek, that she was going to advertise for a father so that she could get pregnant, had also told the press that she had no intentions of marrying Leon.