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Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, ascends to the English throne on the death of Queen Mary.
1875
The American Theosophical Society was founded by Mme Blavatsky.
1916
Author Shelby Foote (The Civil War: A Narrative) born in Greenville, Mississippi.
1919
Sylvia Beach opened her English-language book store, Shakespeare & Co, in Paris.
1938
Folksinger Gordon Lightfoot (Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) born in Orillia, Canada.
1942
Film director Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) born in New York.
1943
Model Lauren Hutton born Charleston, South Carolina.
1944
Actor Danny DeVito (Taxi's Louie De Palma) born in Neptune, New Jersey.
1950
Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
1973
President Richard Nixon declares in a press conference, “I am not a crook.”
