This Day in History....
* 585 BC, Thales of Greece makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse.
* 1085, Alfonso VI takes Toledo, Spain from the Muslims.
* 1787, the Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia
after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum.
* 1810, Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
* 1844, the first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington,
D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
* 1851, Jose Justo de Urquiza of Argentina leads a rebellion against Juan Manuel de Rosas, his former ally.
* 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in
London; he was sentenced to prison.
* 1925, John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.
* 1935, Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and Jesse Owens sets six world records in less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
* 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed
its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
* 1953, The first atomic cannon is fired in Nevada.
* 1961, President Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a
man on the moon by the end of the decade.
* 1968, the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated.
* 1976, U.S. Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, admitted to a "personal
relationship" with Elizabeth Ray, a committee staff member who
claimed she'd received her job in order to be Hays' mistress.
* 1979, 275 people died when an American Airlines DC10 crashed on
takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare airport.
* 1986, an estimated 7 million Americans participated in "Hands
Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money
for the nation's hungry and homeless.
* 2001, A federal appeals court lifted an injunction on publication
of "The Wind Done Gone," Alice Randall's satirical retelling of
"Gone With The Wind" from a black viewpoint.
* 2005, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen won Senate
confirmation as a federal appeals judge after a ferocious four-year
battle.
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