1490,	Albert, last Grand Master of Teutonic Knights,
1866,	Erik Satie, composer.
1900,	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader who was exiled for opposing the Shah in 1964. When the Shah was deposed in 1979, he returned to impose a strict fundamentalist Islamic republic.
1911,	Maureen O'Sullivan, actress.

      Events On This Day In History...

0352,	Liberius elected Pope
0885,	Election of Stephen VI as Pope
1164,	Death of St. Heloise (of Heloise and Abelard)
1198,	Coronation of Frederick II, aged 4 years, as King of Sicily
1215,	The Barons of England march on John "Lackland," King of
1242,	The landing of Henry III, King of England, in France, to
1433,	Duke Henry "the Peaceful" abolishes "kurmede" and "merchet"
1510,	Death of Botticelli
1532,	James V, King of Scotland, founds the Institute of Justice
1536,	Sir Francis Weston, alleged paramour of Anne Boleyn, executed
1540,	KANAUJ (Afghans defeat Moghuls)
1592,	Death of St. Paschal Baylon
1606,	Death of the "False Dimitri"
1620,	1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1620,	First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.
1620,	The first merry-go-round is referred to in records as being set up at a fair in Philippolis, Turkey.
1630,	Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi becomes 1st to see belts on
1642,	Founding of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1648,	ZUSMARSHAUSEN (Allies destroy Imperial rear guard) (Thirty
1792,	24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange.
1804,	Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
1845,	the rubber band is invented.
1861,	The first package holiday arranged by Thomas Cook set off for Paris. A party from a Working Men’s club went with coupons for pre-paid hotel accommodation inclusive of meals.
1872,	Bohemian Club incorporated.
1890,	The first weekly comic paper, Comic Cuts, was published by Alfred Harmsworth, in London.
1900,	Mafeking, a small town in the northern Cape, was relieved after a 217-day siege by the Boers. Robert Baden-Powell became a national hero for refusing to surrender and for the innovative way he kept spirits up during the siege. The man who later started the Scout movement had, in retrospect, achieved a trivial success and should never have been trapped in Mafeking in the first place.
1916,	The Daylight-Saving Act (‘Summer Time’) was passed in Britain.
1921,	President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show in Anaheim.
1937,	Dizzy Gillespie was featured for the first time in a recording made in New York by Teddy Hill and the NBC Orchestra of ‘King Porter Stomp’.
1938,	The Marquess of Bute sold half the city of Cardiff for £20 million in the biggest British property deal ever. It included theatres, farmlands, villages, 20,000 houses, 1,000 shops and 250 pubs.
1954,	Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, overthrowing the principle of "separate but equal."
1969,	Tom McClean from Dublin rowed from Newfoundland to Blacksod Bay, Co. Mayo, completing the first transatlantic solo crossing in a rowing boat.
1978,	Charlie Chaplin’s coffin turned up ten miles from its original Swiss cemetery, after being stolen on 2 March.

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