On This Day in History

1888
The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1937
The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne.
1963
Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
1968
Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas.
1981
Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.
1983
Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
1989
Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1989
Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.
1999
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
2001
Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.

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