Historical Events
1258
Mongol forces sack Baghdad, destroying the Abbasid Caliphate.
1763
The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War and France cedes Canada to Britain.
1942
Glenn Miller receives the first ever gold record for his hit Chattanooga Choo Choo.
1962
Soviet spy Rudolf Abel is exchanged for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers at the Glienicke Bridge.
1996
IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess world champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.
Famous Birthdays
1775
Charles Lamb
English essayist known for his Essays of Elia.
1837
John Acton
English historian known for the phrase "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."
1927
Leontyne Price
American soprano and the first African American to achieve international opera stardom.
1930
Robert Wagner
American actor known for Hart to Hart.
1967
Laura Dern
Academy Award-winning American actress known for Jurassic Park and Marriage Story.
