1302 ~ Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare.

1931 ~ Birthday of Rupert Murdoch, Publisher.

1835 ~ HMS Beagle anchored off Valparaiso, Chile.

1936 ~ Birthday of Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

1952 ~ Birthday of Douglas Adams, Author.

1953 ~ Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, died. He was 73.

1982 ~ Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty.

1985 ~ Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader.

1990 ~ Lithuania declared it's independence from Soviet Union.

1997 ~ Beatle Paul McCartney knighted by Queen.

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