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The Battle of Hastings takes place on Senlac Hill near Hastings, England.
The Normans of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1888
Short-story writer Katherine Mansfield born in Wellington, New Zealand.
1890
Thirty-fourth President of the US, Dwight Eisenhower born in Denton, Texas.
1894
poet e.e. cummings born in cambridge, massachusetts.
Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
1908
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the World Series.
It would be their last one to date.
1912
Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee by John Schrank.
Roosevelt received only a flesh wound.
Schrank's .32 caliber bullet, aimed directly at Roosevelt's heart, is deflected by the manuscript of his speech in his breast pocket.
1926
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne published.
1944
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide after being linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
1947
Chuck Yeager, flying a Bell X-1 jet plane, breaks the the sound barrier (about 760 mph) in California.
1957
“Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis Presley was released.
1962
The Cuban missile crisis begins when an Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed in Cuba.
