This Day in History: 1950
The FBI institutes the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.
This Day in History: 1965
Eric Clapton leaves the Yardbirds because the band moved toward pop.
This Day in History: 1903
The New York Highlanders (later the Yankees) join baseball's American League.
This Day in History: 1818
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is published.
This Day in History: 1927
Engineer Robert Kearns, inventor of an intermittent windshield wiper design, is born.
This Day in History: 1781
The Siege of Pensacola begins as a Spanish naval force lands in Florida.
This Day in History: 1993
MTV airs the first episode of the animated series "Beavis and Butthead".
This Day in History: 1950
The Soviet Union denies any knowledge of atomic spy Klaus Fuchs.
This Day in History: 1776
Major William Malcolm is ordered to dismantle the Sandy Hook lighthouse.
This Day in History: 1963
The Hula-Hoop, a massive toy fad, is patented by Arthur "Spud" Melin.
This Day in History: 1963
The Hula-Hoop, a massive toy fad, is patented by Arthur "Spud" Melin.
This Day in History: 1952
1952: Ernest Hemingway completes his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Old Man and the Sea".
This Day in History: 1863
1863: Congress passes a conscription act, producing the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens.
Musicals
QUESTION: In what Berlin nightclub does Sally Bowles perform in the 1972 Academy Award-winning film "Cabaret"? ANSWER: The Kit Kat Klub A LITTLE MORE: The musical numbers in Bob Fosse's Oscar-winning 1972 film "Cabaret" take place in Berlin's Kit Kat Klub.