This Day in History
1869: In the financial crisis known as Black Friday, American speculators James Fisk and Jay Gould attempt to corner the U.S. market in gold, causing the stock and commodity exchanges to fluctuate wildly. Learn more about Black Friday.1896: In one of his final speeches before his death two years later, former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone urges Britain to intervene in the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. Learn more about William Ewart Gladstone.1957: Playing their last game at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-0.1969: The trial of the Chicago Eight (later the Chicago Seven), anti-Vietnam War activists charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, begins.1988: American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins the gold medal in the heptathalon at the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, setting a new world record of 7,291 points in the event. Learn more about Jackie Joyner-Kersee.1991: Theodor Seuss Geisel, writer of children's books under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, dies in La Jolla, California, at the age of 87. Learn more about Theodor Geisel.
Born on this day
1944 Eavan Boland, poet
1958 Kevin Sorbo - actor
1948 Phil Hartman - comedian, actor
1946 'Mean' Joe Greene - pro football Hall of Famer
1942 Gerry Marsden - singer (Gerry and The Pacemakers)
1941 Linda Eastman McCartney - photographer, singer (Wings); wife of The Beatles bassist Paul McCartney
1940 Phyliss Allbut - singer (The Angels)
1936 Jim Henson - Muppets creator, voice of Kermit the Frog
1931 Anthony Newley - actor, singer
1924 Sheila MacRae - comedienne, actress (The Honeymooners)
1921 Jim McKay - ABC TV sportscaster
1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald - author
1898 Sir Howard Florey, pathologist
1837 Mark Hanna, politician and businessman
1755 John Marshall, Supreme Court justice
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