1804 Meriwether Lewis AND William Clark’s expedition commissioned by Thomas Jefferson sets out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
1913 Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at
56 innings.
1925 Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs Dalloway” is
published by The Hogarth Press.
1938 “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, directed by
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de
Havilland is released.
1944 Gen Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
1945 Physician Joseph G Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human.
1986 Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank’s complete diary.
2013 Dan Brown’s fourth novel starring Robert Langdon (“The Da Vinci Code”), titled “Inferno”, is released and instantly becomes a bestseller.
