These are some of the notable events to have happened on this date throughout history.
1429, Henry VI was crowned King of England.
1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States.
1893, Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died during a cholera epidemic.
1924, Stanley Baldwin was elected Prime Minister of England.
1928, Herbert Hoover was elected as the 31st President of the United States.
1944, Plutonium was first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947, Meet The Press made its television debut.
1965, Cuba and the U.S. formally agreed to begin an airlift for Cubans who wanted to come to the U.S.
1984, Marvin Gaye, Sr. was sentenced to five months' probation for the fatal shooting of his son, soul singer Marvin Gaye, Jr.
1985, The American press revealed that President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1991, Actor Fred MacMurray died.
1998, Negotiations in the Middle East peace process were suspended after suicide bombers, believed to be from the Islamic group Hamas, injured 21 people in a Jerusalem, Israel street.
2002, Actress Winona Ryder was found guilty of shoplifting after stealing items worth $5,500 from a Beverly Hills boutique.
2005, The military junta of Myanmar began moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.
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