Biography of the Day -- Václav Havel
Czech writer and dissident Václav Havel, born this day in 1936, was known for his absurdist depiction of bureaucratic routines and later served as president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the Czech Republic (1993–2003)..
This Day in History --
2001:Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire's single-season home-run record when he hit his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season and finished the season with 73.
1998:The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives recommended impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
1983:Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's Solidarity union, received the Nobel Prize for Peace.
1918:Allied forces broke through the Hindenburg Line in World War I.
1892:The Dalton Brothers—famous American outlaws in the Old West—rode into Coffeyville, Kansas, intent upon robbing the town's two banks, but they were recognized and, coming out of one bank, were met by wild gunfire from vigilantes.
1882:American educator and inventor Robert Hutchings Goddard, generally acknowledged to be the father of modern rocketry, was born.
1877:A small band of Nez Percé warriors, under the leadership of Chief Joseph, surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles after holding off U.S. forces that had tracked them through Idaho, Yellowstone Park, and Montana.
1813: During the "War of 1812," a British army with some 1,000 Indian allies under the famed leader Tecumseh was defeated by U.S. troops in the Battle of the Thames in what is now Ontario, Canada
Quote of the Day --
"I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's."
William Blake, Jerusalem
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