1783- William Pitt becomes the youngest Prime Minister of England at age 24
In 1807 -Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
1809 -Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (“Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee.”) is born
1861- Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the Union
1937 – millionaire Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds
1955 – a presidential news conference was filmed for television and newsreels for the first time, with the permission of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1977 – in one of his last acts of office, President Gerald R. Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D’Aquino, an American convicted of treason for making wartime broadcasts for Japan
1992 – German government and Jewish officials dedicated a Holocaust memorial at the villa on the outskirts of Berlin where the notorious Wannsee Conference had taken place.
2013- Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
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