HISTORICAL EVENTS
1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. The riot started with an altercation at Swindlestock Tavern (where else). Who said education couldn't be dangerous?
1763 – The French and Indian War (a.k.a., the Seven Years' War) ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Starting as a regional conflict in North American is escalated to a world-wide conflict between France and Great Britain in 1756.
1861 – Jefferson Finis Davis learned he was selected President of the Confederate States of America.
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1962 – Soviets exchange CIA U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for a captured Russian spy (Colonel Vilyam Fisher, a.k.a., Rudolf Abel)) at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, Germany. He was on a flight to photograph the area of the Kyshtym disaster when his plane was shot down in 1960.
FAMOUS BIRTHS
1890 – Russian novelist and poet, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, is born in Moscow.
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1989 – Bertolt Brecht, German playwright, is born.
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1927 – American lirico spinto ("pushed Lyric") soprano Mary Violet Leontyne Price is born.
FAMOUS DEATHS
2005 – Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Arthur Miller dies.
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