Cara Mia – David Whitfield with Mantovani and his Orchestra.Three Coins In The Fountain – Frank Sinatra.Little Things Mean A Lot – Kitty Kallen.
On the same day, the Great Fire of Chicago, thought to have been caused by a cow kicking over a lamp, kills 200 people and destroys over 4 square miles of buildings.ġ879: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.ġ892: Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs his “Prelude in C-sharp-Minor” in Moscow.ġ897: Gustav Mahler is named director of the Vienna Court Opera by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I.ġ912: Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning the First Balkan War.ġ917: Leon Trotsky is named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control.ġ918: American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks a German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.ġ924: The Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to the Conservatives.ġ927: The first official Laurel and hardy film, the silent short “The Second Hundred Years” is released.ġ934: Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for the murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby son.ġ952: Three trains crash at Harrow and Wealdstone, killing 112 people. 1075: Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.ġ769: Captain James Cook lands in Poverty Bay, New Zealand.ġ806: British forces lay siege to the French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.ġ871: The deadliest wildfire in recorded history destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing between 1,200 and 2,500 people.
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