Folk singer Joan Baez born in Staten Island (1941), and Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution (1788). Born on this day: Richard Nixon, Richard M. Nixon and Simone de Beauvoir. Died: Napoleon III, Victor Emmanuel II and Maria Gaetana Agnesi.
29 events, 65 births and 63 deaths on this date.
Baez became one of the leading voices of the 1960s folk revival, singing protest songs and backing social justice causes. She also helped bring Bob Dylan's early songs to a wide audience.
Joan_Baez_1963.jpg : U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 - ca. 1978) derivative work: — Malik Shabazz ( talk • contribs ) · Public domainConnecticut voted to adopt the new federal Constitution, becoming the fifth state to do so. Its approval helped move the document closer to the nine states needed to bring it into force.
Residents of Basel had come to believe that the city's Jews were responsible for the Black Death. On this day the community was seized and burned.
The levy took two shillings from every pound earned, a tenth of income, to help bankroll Britain's long war with Napoleonic France. Pitt the Younger introduced it as a wartime measure to pay for the fight.
Three months after his death at Trafalgar, the admiral was given a grand public funeral in London and laid to rest in St Paul's. Crowds lined the streets for the procession, and his tomb there remains one of the cathedral's best-known monuments.
Lemuel Francis Abbott · Public domain
Davy put his new lamp to the test in a coal mine, aiming to give miners a light that would not ignite the explosive gas that killed so many underground. The lamp's flame was enclosed in fine wire gauze, which kept it from setting off gas outside.
Thomas Phillips · Public domain
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Richard Nixon became the only US president to resign from office, forced out by the Watergate scandal in 1974. Before that he opened relations with China and pushed for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984) · Public domain
Richard Nixon was the 37th US president and the only one to resign, forced out by the Watergate scandal in 1974. Earlier he had been vice president under Eisenhower and a leading anti-communist in Congress.
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984) · Public domain
French existentialist philosopher and writer whose 1949 book The Second Sex analysed women's oppression and became a foundation of feminist thought. She also wrote novels such as The Mandarins and memoirs that are among her most enduring work.
Moshe Milner · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nephew of Napoleon I, he rose from failed coups to become France's president and then emperor, reshaping Paris and railways. He was deposed after defeat at Sedan in 1870, and died in exile in England.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter · Public domain
Victor Emmanuel II was the first king of a united Italy, a role he took in 1861 after years of campaigning for unification. Known as the Father of the Fatherland, he ruled until his death in Rome.
Eugène Disdéri · Public domain
Milanese mathematician who wrote an early calculus textbook and became the first woman appointed a mathematics professor at a university. She spent her last decades on theology and helping the poor.
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
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