On this date in

1187 Saladin captured Jerusalem ending 88 years of Crusader rule.

1835 The Battle of Gonzales began the Texas Revolution.

1919 President Woodrow Wilson was partially paralyzed by a stroke.

1925 John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television system.

1928 Opus Dei was founded.

1941 Nazi armies began an all-out attack on Moscow.

1944 Nazi troops crushed the Warsaw Uprising.

1950 The cartoon strip "Peanuts" was published for the first time.

1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first African-Amercan Supreme Court justice.

1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team crashed in Colorado.

1985 Rock Hudson died of AIDS.

1998 Gene Autry died.

2002 The Beltway Sniper attacks began.

2006 Charles Carl Roberts took girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse, killing five and wounding five others before he killed himself.

Born on this date
King Richard III (1452-1485)
Nat Turner (1800-1831)
Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Cordell Hull (1871-1955)
Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
Bud Abbott (1895-1974)
Graham Greene (1904-1991)
George "Spanky" McFarland (1928-1993)
Moses Gunn (1929-1993)
Johnnie L. Cochran (1937-2005)