Other Events
1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1896 – A newspaper brings the news that someone had discovered a type
of radiation later known as X-rays.
1914 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday.
1918 – What would later become the Nazi party is founded.
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the
United States.
1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications
Commission for the first time.
1993 – Washington state executes the last legal hanging in America.
Births
1209 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (d. 1272)
1548 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1614 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1667 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740)
1696 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
1717 – William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1762 – Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
