1721 ~ In Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach presented six concertos to the Marburg of Brandenburg.

1765 ~ Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings. That one showed up in the Declaration of Independence.

1855 ~ Birthday of Andrew Mellon, Financier and Industrialist.

1874 ~ Birthday of Harry Houdini, Magician and Escape Artist.

1927 ~ Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.

1947 ~ The U.S. Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms.

1955 ~ Tennessee Williams' “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” debuted on Broadway.

1980 ~ In San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass.

1992 ~ Punch, Britain's oldest satirical magazine, closed after 150 years.

1999 ~ NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia. The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.

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