Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

• In 39, Roman emperor Titus is born.
• In 274, Pope Felix I dies.
• In 1066, The Granada Massacre occurs.
• In 1644, Jan Baptist von Helmont, Flemish Chemist, dies.
• In 1702, James Moore abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
• In 1741, Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain is born.
• In 1816, The Treaty of St. Louis with the Ottawa, Ojibwa, Potawatomi tribes is proclaimed.
• In 1819, German Writer Theodor Fontane is born.
• In 1819, The First mayor of San Francisco, John W. Geary, is born.
• In 1826, The Treaty of St. Louis with the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
• In 1853, The United States purchases Land from Mexico.
• In 1865, English Writer Rudyard Kipling is born.
• In 1903, A Fire at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago kills 605.
• In 1908, Musician Bo Diddley is born.
• In 1916, The last coronation in Hungary occurs.
• In 1922, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
• In 1927, The Ginza Line opens in Tokyo, Japan.
• In 1945, Singer Davy Jones is born.
• In 1972, The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
• In 1975, American Golfer Tiger Woods was born.
• In 1981, Wayne Gretzky scores his 50th goal in 39 games, beating the previous record.
• In 1992, A Panda given to the US By China, Ling-Ling, dies.
• In 2006, Former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is executed.
• In 2011, British Cartoonist Ronald Searle dies.

Look for more current news later this evening and another Historical Daily Run Down next week.

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