Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother(Britain’s beloved βQueen Mumβ was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II)β
Timi Yuro(singer)β
Events
President Washington proclaimed boundary of new capital city on Potomac Riverβ
Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA, placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck. This was the first recorded use of anesthesiaβ
H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, patented the first pencil with eraserβ
America bought Alaska from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward (Seward’s Folly). The price was $7.2 million, or slightly more than $0.02 an acreβ
Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson beganβ
Texas readmitted to the Unionβ
Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker, opened in New York Cityβ
Official opening of Canada’s first subway (Toronto)β
Woody Guthrie’s song This Land is Your Land copyrightedβ
Jeopardy! game show made its television debutβ
The last rum ration was issued in the Royal Canadian Navyβ
President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotelβ
An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowersβ
Possible UFO seen, Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territoryβ
Superathletes Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka pulled five railway cars more than 20 feetβ
Weather
Hurricane-force winds uprooted trees and brought high tides to the coast and heavy snows inland from Pennsylvania to Maineβ
In North Dakota, heavy rain and snowmelt around Fargo produced severe floodingβ
A line of thunderstorms and tornadoes tore up homes and knocked down power lines in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraskaβ