Commemorations
378: The Battle of Adrianople. Visigoths defeated troops of the Eastern Empire, spelling the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.
1471: Election of Sixtus IV. Considered the first pope of the renaissance. Built the Sistine Chapel.
1884: Maiden voyage of “La France,” the first steerable dirigible, around Chalais-Meudon.
1896: Otto Lilienthal, civil engineer, crashed while piloting a glider, near Berlin-Lichterfelde.
1940: Opening of the Baghdad Railway, which stretched from Istanbul to Basra.
1945: Atom-bomb, “Fat Man” detonated by U.S. Air Force, over Nagasaki, Japan
1965: Singapore gained sovereignty after expulsion from Malaysian Federation.
1994: Taslima Nasreen, physician/writer/activist, fled Bangladesh and went into exile.
1996: Boris Yeltsin reelected President of Russia
Birthdays
1631: John Dryden. Poet, critic. England. (d.1700)
1819: William Morton. Dentist. Introduced the use of ether as an anesthetic. U.S. (d.1868)
1919. Emilio Vedova. Painter. Italy.
1920: Willi Heinrich. Novelist. Germany.
1928: Gerd Ruge. Journalist, publicist, foreign political correspondent TV/radio. Germany.
1963: Whitney Houston. Soul/Pop singer. U.S.
1968: Gillian Anderson. Actress. U.S.
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