Today in History

The Siege of Khe Sanh ends with the base is still in American hands.

Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader.

Stanley Elkin, author (George Mills).

Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist.

Phil Silvers, comedian and actor.

Salvador Dali, surrealist painter.

William Grant Still, American composer and conductor.

Mari Sandoz, writer and biographer (Crazy Horse).

Irving Berlin, composer, writer of over 1,500 songs.

“”King” Joseph Oliver, jazz cornetist and bandleader.

Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern.

Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia.

Giuseppe Garibaldi lands at Marsala, Sicily.

Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

Indian mutineers seize Delhi.

British Prime Minster Spencer Perceval is shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.

The Columbia River is discovered by Captain Robert Gray.

French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.

In the first major engagement of King William’s War, British troops from Massachusetts seize Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) from the French.

French and English navies battle at Bantry Bay.

Henry of Anjou becomes the first elected king of Poland.