When a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”
In 2014 top secret photographs of the Hiroshima bomb being prepared for launch became declassified. Technicians signed their names on the tip of the bomb just hours before detonation.
It is illegal to refuse a person a glass of water in the state of Arizona.
As a Presidential candidate in 1968, Richard Nixon secretly sabotaged a peace deal in Vietnam. The war went on for 5 more years.
The “Alexandra Limp” was a short lived fad in Victorian London. Fashionable young women mimicked the limp of Princess Alexandra. Canny shopkeepers even started selling mismatched footwear, with one high heel, and one low. The practice was widely ridiculed, even at the time.
1903 - WB Yeats and Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
1906 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms
1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
1935 - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
1951 - During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
1986 - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1887 - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
1895 - Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian
1908 - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1935 - Jo van den Booren, composer
1959 - Tamara Tunie, American actress
1982 - François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
1760 - Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26
1925 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
1986 - Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2007 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
2012 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta, dies at 98
