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1800
During the playing of the national anthem at the Theatre Royal, James Hadfield fires a pistol at King George III of the United Kingdom.
And misses.
Hadfield is later acquitted of the assassination atempt by reason of insanity.
1856 
Writer L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) born in Chittenango, New York.
1886
Poet Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Massachusetts, having not left home since 1865.
Upon her request, her coffin was carried through fields of buttercups for burial in the family plot.
She was 55.
1890
Writer Katherine Anne Porter born Indian Creek, Texas.
1930 
Artist Jasper Johns was born Augusta, Georgia.
Photographer Richard Avedon born in New York.
1942
Joe DiMaggio
began his major-league baseball record 56 game hitting streak.
1948
Musician Brian Peter George St. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.
1963 
The final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper is launched.
1972
Arthur Bremer shoots Alabama Govenor George Wallace in a Maryland shopping mall.
