1789 – The first Presidential Inaugural Ball was held in New York City.
1833 – Composer Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany.
1840 – Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia.
1901 – Actor Gary Cooper was born in Helena, MT.
1912 – Columbia University approved final plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories.
1912 – The first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD.
1915 – On its return trip from New York to Liverpool, England, the British ocean liner, Lusitania, was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 lives people.
1919 – Eva (Evita) Peron, Argentina’s spiritual leader and wife of former president Juan Peron, was born in Buenos Aires.
1960 – Leonid Brezhnev was selected president of the Soviet Union.
1994 – Almost 3 months after it was stolen from an Oslo museum, police recovered Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
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