1803 – Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, MA.
1889 – Engineer Igor Sikorsky who developed the first successful helicopter was born in Kiev, Russia.
1895 – British playwright Oscar Wilde was sent to prison after being convicted of sodomy.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company announced that it would cease production of its popular automobile model, the Model T, and replace it with the more modern Model A.
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1927 – The Movietone News was shown for the first time at the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City. Charles Lindbergh’s epic flight aboard the Spirit of St. Louis was featured. Movietone newsreels were produced until 1967 when competition from TV news forced them into extinction.
1927 – Writer Robert Ludlum (Bourne series) was born in New York City.
1935 – Babe Ruth, then of the Boston Braves, hit his 713th and 714th home runs – the last of his career – at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in a game against the Pirates.
1977 – As part of its “Cultural Revolution,” the Chinese government lifted a decades-old ban on the writings of William Shakespeare.
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