Today in History

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Events
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen capture Montreal from British General Guy Carleton
1805 - Johann Georg Lehner invents the hot dog
1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington
1940 - The animated feature-length film Fantasia is released
1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators
1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage is still illegal in 31 US states out of 50
1974 - Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood’s car is forced off the road while she is travelling to an interview with New York Times reporter David Burnham. Her files are missing from the carwreck; an FBI investigation later concludes accident, but is not generally believed to have been impartial
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans
1990 - The first known World Wide Web page is written

Births
354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, theologian (d. 430)
1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
1826 - Charles Frederick Worth, couturier (d. 1895)
1848 - Albert I of Monaco (d. 1922)
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (d. 1894)
1856 - Louis Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1941)

Deaths
867 - St. Nicholas I, Pope
1460 - Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince and patron of African exploration
1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, composer
1974 - Karen Silkwood, union activist