Today in History

John F. Kennedy accepts the Democratic nomination for president.

President Dwight Eisenhower sends 5,000 Marines to Lebanon to keep the peace.

The first supply flight from India to China over the ‘Hump’ is flown.

Iris Murdoch, British novelist (A Severed Head, The Black Prince).

Gavin Maxwell, Scottish writer and naturalist (Ring of Bright Water).

Hammond Innes, English novelist.

Richard W. Armour, humorist and author (Twisted Tales from Shakespeare).

Dorothy Fields, songwriter.

Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers go on strike.

Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stepfan Stambolov, is murdered by Macedonian rebels.

Confederate raider Bill Anderson and his Bushwhackers attack Huntsville, Missouri, stealing $45,000 from the local bank.

Francis Xavier Cabrini, the first American canonized saint.

William Winter, drama critic and essayist for The New York Times.

Lord Napier of England arrives at Macao, China, as the first chief superintendent of trade.

Napoleon Bonaparte‘s representatives meet with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.

Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins his western expedition from Fort Belle Fontaine.

Thomas Bulfinch, historian and mythologist (The Age of Fable).

The electors of Paris set up a “Commune” to live without the authority of the government.

Clement Moore, American scholar and educator.

The Duke of Monmouth is executed in Tower Hill in England.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch artist.

Poles and Lithuanians defeat the Teutonic knights at Tannenberg, Prussia.

Jerusalem falls to the Crusaders.