Historical Events
1689
William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of England.
1814
Napoleon abdicates the throne of France.
1945
US forces liberate the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald.
1961
The trial of Adolf Eichmann, a key organizer of the Holocaust, begins in Jerusalem.
1970
Apollo 13 is launched from Cape Kennedy.
Famous Birthdays
1755
James Parkinson
English physician who first described the disorder now known as Parkinson's disease.
1794
Edward Everett
American politician and orator who spoke at Gettysburg before Lincoln's Address.
1862
Charles Evans Hughes
American statesman who served as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
1945
Ellen Goodman
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.
1970
Trevor Berbick
Jamaican-Canadian boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in his last fight.
