539BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded in London
1787 Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni debuts in Prague
1833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1891 Singing comedienne Fanny Brice is born
1901 Mass-murdering nurse Jane Toppan is arrested in Amherst
1929 BLACK TUESDAY: STOCK MARKET CRASHES
1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale ($12.50), 57 years after it was patented
1947 Actor Richard Dreyfuss is born
1960 Cassius Clay wins his first pro bout — over Tunney Hunsaker
1961 “Big Bad John” by Jimmy Dean tops the charts
1966 The National Organization for Women is founded
1967 The musical ”Hair” opens off-Broadway
1971 Actress Winona Ryder is born
1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
1992 Depo Provera, a contraceptive, is approved by the FDA
2004 Sotheby fails to sell “Wilde Myth”, a diatribe about Oscar Wilde by his former lover Bosie
2005 LAW BABY YEAH!
