Anniversaries

Gloria May Josephine Swanson, American actress and producer, was born.

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

Death of Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot, cosmonaut and first human to journey into outer space.

Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut, died.

First US Patent titled "Clothes Washing" is granted to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire.

Maxim Gorky, Russian and Soviet writer, founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist, was born.

Adeline Virginia Woolf, English modernist writer, died.

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor, died.

Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman, dies.

World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, or about 2 cents per acre.

English musician, singer and songwriter, Eric Clapton was born.

Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator known for his idealized neo-classical imagery, dies.

The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds opens to the public.

The official opening of the global cultural icon, the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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