1189 Third Crusade: Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1207 King John of England grants small town of Liverpool a charter (right to elect a mayor and aldermen)
1609 English explorer Henry Hudson is the first European to sail into Delaware Bay, naming it South Bayonthisday.
1837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire sauce
1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
1884 1st Photograph of a Tornado One of the 1st known photographs of a tornado, taken by F.N. Robinson
1917 Ten suffragists are arrested while picketing the White House
1956 17th Venice Film Festival opens: no Golden Lion awarded
1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1965 Bob Dylan is booed for playing electric guitar during a concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York City
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes a media darling at the Munich Olympics, winning gold in the team all-around, followed by two individual golds and a silver
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