Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

511

Clovis, king of the Franks, died and his kingdom was divided between his four sons.

1095

At the council of Clermont, France, Pope Urban II proclaims the First Crusade.

1582

William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.

1779

The Pennsylvania state government converts the College of Philadelphia into the University of the State of Pennsylvania, thus creating both America's first state school and America's first official university.

1826

Jebediah Smith and his expedition reached San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the U.S.

1901

The Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

1910

New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.

1924

New York City's Macy's department store held its first Thanksgiving Day parade down a two-mile stretch of Broadway from Central Park West to Herald Square.

1939

The play ''Key Largo,'' by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

1940

In Romania, the pro-fascist Iron Guard murdered 64 people, including former prime minister Jorga.

1942

A French Navy fleet stationed in Toulon sinks 10 of their own cruisers, 28 destroyers, and 14 submarines to avoid their falling into Nazi hands.

1967

The French President, Charles de Gaulle, says he will veto Britain's application to join the Common Market for a second time.

1970

Pope Paul the VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

1973

The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.

1975

Ross McWhirter, the BBC TV presenter and co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records shot dead outside his home.

1978

San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.

1985

The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord, giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.

1990

John Major wins the Conservatives' leadership elections, becoming Britain's new prime minister.

1991

Both houses of the U.S. Congress approved legislation authorizing $70 billion in borrowing authority for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) because of the savings and loan failures.

1997

Inter-Agency Somalia Flood Response Team estimated that flooding in Somalia had left 230,000 people homeless.

1998

Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was ''not false and misleading.''

2002

United Nations investigators began a new round of weapons inspections in Iraq.

1701

Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and thermometer inventor.

1746

Robert R. Livingston, U.S. statesman and diplomat

1843

Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman.

1853

Bat Masterson, American Wild West gambler, saloonkeeper, lawman, and editor.

1874

Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel

1909

James Agee, American Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

1912

David Merrick, American Broadway producer.

1917

Buffalo Bob (Smith), American TV host.

1940

Bruce Lee (Liu Yuen Kam), Chinese American actor and martial arts expert

1942

Jimi Hendrix, American rock guitarist

1957

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of President John F. Kennedy.

1953

Playwright Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist and 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient, died in Boston at age 65.

1988

John Carradine, American actor