Today in History

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Events
740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
1640 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England
1863 - The Football Association is formed
1863 - International Federation of the Red Cross is formed
1881 - The “Gunfight” at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona
1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden
1936 - The first generator goes online at Boulder Dam
1947 - The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India
1948 - Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania
1994 - Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
1994 - Announcement of Andrew Wiles’ correct proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament

Births
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer
1854 - C. W. Post, cereal entrepreneur
1911 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (d. 1972)
1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scots Gaelic poet
1932 - Eidegenegen Eidagaruwo, first Angam Baby
1961 - Dylan McDermott, actor (The Practice)

Deaths
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer
1999 - Hoyt Axton, musician