Other Events
1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the United States’ first female doctor.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to
his “Frisbee”.
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members.
2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
Births
1350 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
1688 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1719 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
1737 – John Hancock, American patriot (d. 1793)
1745 – William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1783 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
