On this date in: |
1821 | Spain ceded Florida to the United States. |
1898 | Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces during the Spanish-American War. |
1917 | With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor. |
1918 | Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks. |
1945 | President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. |
1948 | Southern Democrats opposed to the party's position on civil rights met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president. |
1955 | Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif. |
1961 | Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74. |
1967 | Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died at age 40. |
1981 | A pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a dance, killing 114 people. |
1996 | TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people aboard were killed. |
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2000 | Bashar Assad succeeded his late father, Hafez Assad, becoming Syria's 16th head of state. |
2009 | Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at age 92. |
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Today's Birthdays: |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel turns 60 years old today. |
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Name | Profession | Age |
Diahann Carroll | Actress, singer | 79 |
Donald Sutherland | Actor | 79 |
Spencer Davis | Rock singer, musician | 72 |
Connie Hawkins | Basketball Hall of Famer | 72 |
Terry "Geezer" Butler | Rock musician (Black Sabbath) | 65 |
Lucie Arnaz | Actress | 63 |
David Hasselhoff | Actor ("Baywatch," "Knight Rider") | 62 |
Bryan Trottier | Hockey Hall of Famer | 58 |
Mark Burnett | TV producer ("Survivor," "The Apprentice") | 54 |
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, turns 67 years old today. |
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