Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Bob Weir, of The Grateful Dead, still making Headlines Du Jour. Here are some others from yesteryear:

• 1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.




• 1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing eight.







• 1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.




• 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.




• 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.




• 1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.




• 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.




• 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.




• 1944 – Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
• 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
• 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
• 1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.

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