1912 – Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt’s wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting.
1926 – The book “Winnie-the-Pooh,” by A.A. Milne, made its debut.
1964 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1968 – 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
1972 – In Iraq, oil was struck for the first time just north of Kirkuk.
1994 – Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
2013 – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices
2014 – Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize
By: Archa Dave
