1790 – Benjamin Franklin died at age 84 in Philadelphia.
1885 – Author Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa) was born in Rungsted, Denmark.
1894 – Nikita Khrushchev, Russian premier 1958 – 1964, was born in Kalinovka, Ukraine.
1897 – Novelist Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) was born in Madison, WI.
1941 – Igor Sikorsky accomplished the first successful helicopter (or heliocopter as it was called then) lift-off from water near Stratford, CT.
1969 – A jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy the previous year.
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