… are doomed to look it up. Today in history (thanks to Wikipedia):
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English
1773 – The Public Advertiser publishes a satrical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by Benjamin Franklin
1906 – Mahatma Gandhi starts Non-Violence movement
1970 – The Ford Pinto is introduced
1973 – A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years
1982 – The international forces, which were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, left Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps
1987 – 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day
1990 – President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded
1998 – Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses
1956 – Dale Lenore Eisen, later known as Rusty Poehner, born (late – we’re actually essentially the same age!) in Chicago.