1940 - Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan.

A called shot is a called shot!
 

1990: Dave Stewart and Fernando Valenzuela pitch two 'no-hitter' baseball games on the same day a feat accomplished only one other time in professional baseball (1898). Thirty minutes before the Dodgers faced the St. Louis Cardinals , Fernando Valenzuela noticed on a clubhouse television set that Oakland pitcher Dave Stewart had thrown a no-hitter in Toronto. Fernando turned to some teammates and he said, 'That's great, now maybe we'll see another no-hitter,' Valenzuela then pitched as well as he predicted, throwing the first no-hitter of his career in a 6-0 victory.
It was the first (and only) time in the modern baseball era that two no-hitters have been pitched on the same day. ''Fernando even said after watching it on TV, he said there might be another one tonight,'' Tommy Lasorda, the Dodgers' manager, said. ''So that was a pretty good prediction.'' It was a joke, Valenzuela insisted. ''Yeah,'' Lasorda said, ''but it happened.'' :yep:

1934 - "Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party.

1921 - The Communist Party of China is founded.

No way to enter Valhalla
 

1912: Harriet Quimby,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Quimby_054.png the first woman to fly the English Channel in 1912, an first licensed woman pilot in the US( lic. # 37) is killed along with her passenger at the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet. William Willard, the organizer of the event, was a passenger in her brand-new two-seat?? Bleriot monoplane. At an altitude of 1,500 feet (460 m) the aircraft unexpectedly pitched forward for reasons still unknown. Then the unbelievable and horrifying occurred. Willard was seen to hurtle clear over the nose of the plane, followed a second or two later by Quimby. Both plunged into the muddy river 1,000 feet below which, with the tide out, was barely three or four feet. deep. Death was instantaneous. Ironically, the plane recovered from its dive, crash-landed in the river and, tripped by its landing gear, flipped upside down with only minor damage. It was intact enough for a thorough inspection of its controls. Both Willard and Quimby were ejected from their seats and fell to their deaths, while the plane "glided down and lodged itself in the mud".
Harriet Quimby was buried in the in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New Yorkhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...iet_quimby.jpg http://www.historynet.com/harriet-quimby-first-licensed-us-woman-pilot.htm

1940 - Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion).

1943 - Liberator bombers sink U-628.

History changes course: two Georges having a good day
 

1776 - US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain.

A close shave for all seasons!
 

1919 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr).

1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam.

2005 - Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700.

1988 - Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992.

1994 - Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson.

2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.