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Notable Events
1509 - England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon, the first of his six wives.

1770 - Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef
off Australia.

1793 - The first patent for a stove was issued, to Robert Haeterick.

1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-
driven automobile.

1927 - Charles Lindbergh received the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded.

1937 - Josef Stalin's great Soviet "Purge" ended.

1942 - The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-
lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.

1982 - The movie "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" opened.

1987 - Margaret Thatcher won her third consecutive term as

Prime Minister.

1991 - Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines.

2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168
people.

Notable Births
1572 - Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright.

1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer.

1880 - Jeannette Pickering Rankin, first woman elected to Congress.

1910 - Jacques Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer, oceanographer.


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1932 - Athol Fugard, South African dramatist and director.

1933 - Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman), American actor and comedian.

1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver.

Notable Deaths
1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, American illustrator and naturalist, and
founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), American film actor.

1999 - DeForest Kelley, American television and film actor.

2003 - David Brinkley, American news broadcaster.

Holidays
Libya: American Bases Evacuation Day (1970).