Today in History

From wikipedia.org:

Events
1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta
1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed
1860 - South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States
1915 - Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli
1999 - Macau is handed over to the People’s Republic of China by Portugal

Births
1805 - Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
1868 - Harvey Firestone, automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)
1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor (d. 1967)
1946 - Uri Geller, psychic TV presenter

Deaths
217 - Pope Zephyrinus
1954 - James Hilton, author (b. 1900)
1968 - John Steinbeck, writer (b. 1902)
1973 - Bobby Darin, singer (b. 1936)
1982 - Artur Rubinstein, musician (b. 1887)