- 1399: King Richard II became the first English monarch to abdicate.
                      - 1789: Congress voted to create the U.S. Army, made up of 1,000
                        enlisted men and officers.
                      - 1829: Scotland Yard was formed out of the reorganization of
                        London's police force.
                      - 1915: The first transcontinental radio telephone message was sent.
                      - 1918: Allied forces broke through the Hindenburg Line in Germany in
                        World War I.
                      - 1923: Britain began to govern Palestine under a mandate from the
                        League of Nations.
                      - 1936: The radio was first used in a presidential campaign.
                      - 1938: The Munich agreement was signed between France, Germany,
                        Britain and Italy in which the German-speaking part of
                        Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, was surrendered to Nazi Germany.
                      - 1940: The ship Booker T. Washington, the first U.S. merchant ship
                        commanded by a black captain, was launched.
                      - 1941: Over two days the Germans killed 33,771 Jewish men, women and
                        children in the Babi Yar massacre at a ravine near Kiev.
                      - 1962: President Kennedy called out the Mississippi National Guard
                        after officials defied a federal court order to enroll James
                        Meredith, a black student, at the University of Mississippi.
                      - 1971: The Orbiting Solar Observatory VII was launched to study a
                        solar flare using x-ray observation.
                      - 1983: For the first time, Congress used the War Powers Act to
                        authorize President Reagan to keep 1,600 Marines in Lebanon for an
                        additional 18 months.
                      - 1988: In the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle
                        Challenger in Jan. 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.

                      *Happy Birthday*
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                      - Gene Autry, 91, singer/guitarist/actor
                      - Andrew "Dice" Clay, 41, actor/comedian, "Bless This House"
                      - Sebastian Coe, 42, track & field, World record-holder in 800m and
                        1000m races
                      - Anita Ekberg, 67, actress, "From Russia With Love"
                      - Erika Eleniak, 29, actress/model, "Baywatch"
                      - Steve Forrest, 74, actor, "SWAT"
                      - Bryant Gumbel, 50, news and sportscaster
                      - Madeline Kahn, 56, actress, "Young Frankenstein"
                      - Stanley Kramer, 85, producer/director, "Guess Who's Coming to
                        Dinner"
                      - Jerry Lee Lewis, 63, singer, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On"
                      - Larry Linville, 59, actor "M*A*S*H"
                      - Emily Lloyd, 28, actress, "A River Runs Through It"
                      - Lech Walesa, 55, Poland labor leader, Solidarity founder, Nobel
                        laureate