Kennedy's body is moved to Arlington National Cemetery (1967), and Granada's citizens storm palaces and depose Sultan Muhammad III (1309). Born on this day: Albert Einstein, Michael Caine and Aamir Khan. Died: Karl Marx, Stephen Hawking and William Fowler.
25 events, 65 births and 59 deaths on this date.
Kennedy's remains were moved from a temporary grave to a permanent resting place at Arlington National Cemetery, where an eternal flame now burns. The move came nearly four years after his assassination in Dallas in 1963.
Cecil W. Stoughton · Public domainThe Cuban Missile CrisisHear the story in ChunksDuring the Eid al-Fitr celebrations, townspeople in Granada rose up and seized the palaces, removing the sultan and installing his half-brother Nasr in his place. The coup showed how fragile power in the Nasrid kingdom could be.
Crown Prince Naruhito attended a Tokyo ceremony naming element 113, nihonium, after the Japanese word for Japan. The Riken team, which first claimed the element, saw its name approved in 2016, though the element decays within seconds.
Anne Miller became the first patient in the United States to receive penicillin, given under the care of doctors Orvan Hess and John Bumstead. The drug, derived from Penicillium moulds, had been purified at Oxford only two years earlier.
A US Navy pilot, John McCain, walked free after more than five years in North Vietnamese hands, along with 108 other prisoners. Their release marked the return of American captives as the Vietnam War wound down.
Royal Navy admiral John Byng was shot by a firing squad after a court martial judged he had not done all he could at Minorca. The battle was an early setback for Britain in the Seven Years' War, which had only just begun.
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The physicist whose theory of relativity reshaped how we understand space and time. Born in the Kingdom of Württemberg, he later won the 1921 Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect.
Ferdinand Schmutzer / Adam Cuerden · Public domain
Michael Caine is an English actor known for his Cockney accent and horn-rimmed glasses, and for appearing in more than 130 films across eight decades. He won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules.
Manfred Werner / Tsui · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aamir Khan is an Indian actor, director and producer known as "Mr. Perfectionist" for his meticulous work across more than three decades of Hindi cinema. He has won numerous awards, including nine Filmfare Awards and four National Film Awards.
Bollywood Hungama · CC BY 3.0
Marx was a German philosopher and economist whose analysis of class struggle under capitalism, written with Friedrich Engels, became the foundation of Marxism. He died in London in 1883, having spent his last decades writing Das Kapital.
John Jabez Edwin Mayall · Public domain
Stephen Hawking was a British theoretical physicist who showed that black holes should radiate energy, now called Hawking radiation. He wrote A Brief History of Time and kept working on cosmology despite paralysis from motor neurone disease.
NASA · Public domain
William Alfred Fowler was an American astrophysicist who worked out how nuclear reactions inside stars forge the chemical elements. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for that work, co-writing the influential B2FH paper with Burbidge, Burbidge and Hoyle.
Federal Government of the United States · Public domain
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