Historical Events
1538
Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first controlled, sustained airplane flight at Kitty Hawk.
1939
The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled.
1975
Patty Hearst is indicted on robbery charges.
2010
A Tunisian fruit vendor sets himself on fire, sparking the Arab Spring.
Famous Birthdays
1706
Émilie du Châtelet
French physicist and mathematician who translated Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1734
Giovanni Battista Martini
Italian musical historian.
1778
Humphry Davy
British chemist who discovered several chemical elements including sodium and potassium.
1929
William Safire
American journalist and presidential speechwriter known for his On Language column.
1975
Milla Jovovich
Ukrainian-American actress and model known for The Fifth Element and Resident Evil.
