Today in History

From wikipedia.org:

Events
534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published
1384 - Hedwig is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman
1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Incan Emperor Atahualpa and his nobles
1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube
1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo
1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state
1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business
1940 - Holocaust: In Poland, Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world
1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet
1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University
1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship

Births
1717 - Jean le Rond d’Alembert
1922 - Gene Amdahl, computer scientist
1924 - James Bond, fictional character
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1964 - Diana Krall, singer

Ceaths
1960 - Clark Gable, actor
2003 - Bettina Goislard, UNHCR relief worker