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1613
The Globe Theater burns during a nighttime performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
A cannon was fired to mark the King's entrance, the thatched roof caught fire, and the whole theater was lost in an hour.
1776
Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1900 
French novelist and aviator Antoine Saint-Euxpéry ( The Little Prince) born in Lyon, France. He later lost his life during World War II flying for the Free French.
1957 
Sex-symbol Jayne Mansfield dies in an automobile accident on the Lake Ponchatarian Bridge near New Orleans.
1978
Actor Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes) is bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Arizona hotel room.
2007
Apple releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
