1617,	Elias Ashmole
1848,	Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer who built gliders and other heavier-than-air flying machines based on bird flight. He inspired the Wright brothers by his many short unpowered flights, one of which ended in his death.
1883,	Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
1910,	Artie Shaw, band leader and husband.
1933,	Joan Collins, actress, BITCH!

      Events On This Day In History...

0034,	Holy Ghost descended
0607,	Death of St. Desiderius
1059,	Coronation of Philip I, King of France
1116,	Death of St. Ivo of Chartres
1125,	Death of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1173,	Death of St. Euphrosyme of Polotosk
1192,	The 3rd Cusade, and Richard I of England, recaptures Daron
1285,	Hospitalers surrender Marqab to Kala'un
1373,	Chaucer returns from Italy
1430,	Jeanne d'Arc captured by the Burgundians, who sell her to the
1480,	Turks arrive at Rhodes to besiege it
1498,	Death of Sarvonerola, by burning as an heretic
1498,	Vasco da Gama makes landfall at Calcutta, India
1524,	Death of Ismail, Shah of Persia
1533,	Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn, wife number two. The result was a break with the church in Rome despite Henry’s title as ‘Protector of the Faith’.
1533,	The Marriage of Henry VIII, King of England, to Catherine of
1541,	Jacques Cartier begins his third voyage to Canada
1568,	HEILIGER LEE (French defeat a German-Spanish army)
1607,	Christopher Newport and 140 surviors found Jamestown
1611,	Rudolf II abdicates the Crown of Bohemia
1618,	Defenestration of Hradschin (Beginning of 30 Yrs. War)
1701,	‘Captain’ William Kidd, Scottish privateer-turned-pirate, was hanged with three others at London’s Execution Docks.
1706,	Marlborough defeated the French at the Battle of Ramillies in Belgium, the British allied with the Dutch and Danish armies.
1797,	A cartoon by Gillray was published which gave the Bank of England its nickname, ‘The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’.
1873,	The men who always get their man, The North West Mounted Police, were formed in Canada. In 1920, they became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1887,	The French crown jewels went on sale and raised six million francs.
1898,	First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
1901,	Gaetano Brecci, assassin of Italian King Humbert, committed suicide in a Rome prison.
1908,	Dirigible (a blimp) explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
1921,	"Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New York City.
1934,	Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Baron), the young US outlaws, died in a hail of bullets on a lonely stretch of road in Louisiana where they were trapped by the police. During their four-year partnership, they killed at least 12 people as they robbed banks, petrol stations and diners.
1948,	The Empire Windrush sailed from Jamaica with the first West Indian immigrants to help with Britain’s severe manpower shortage following the Second World War.
1953,	The first "Cliff's Notes" appear in schools. (Thanks Cliff).
1960,	Adolf Eichmann, Nazi wanted for war atrocities, was found living in Argentina under the name Ricardo Klement by an Israeli kidnap squad. Assisted by the Argentine secret service, they flew him out on an El Al Britannia flight to Tel Aviv this night to face trial in Israel.
1988,	Possibly the first underwater marriage took place: two Danish tourists married on an underwater reef in Mauritius. Fleming Koch and Nina Tolgard used divers’ language to make their vows to a Mauritian civil servant conducting the service in a glass-bottomed boat. The couple’s diving instructor served as the underwater witness.