Historical Events
476
Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor, is deposed.
1781
Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers.
1886
Geronimo, the Apache leader, surrenders to the US Army.
1888
George Eastman receives a patent for the Kodak camera.
1972
Mark Spitz wins his seventh gold medal at the Munich Olympics.
Famous Birthdays
1768
François-René de Chateaubriand
French writer and diplomat, founder of Romanticism in French literature.
1824
Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer known for his symphonies.
1905
Mary Renault
British novelist who wrote historical fiction set in ancient Greece.
1913
Stanford Moore
American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for research on ribonuclease.
1981
Beyoncé
American singer who is one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
