Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel was born today in 1928. On this day in history, in 1986 Wiesel received the prestigious award for his work as a human rights advocate. In 1066, the Battle of Hastings took place, where Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English. Aviator Claude Grahame-White flew his biplane over Washington, D.C. in 1910, landing near the White House. In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life instead of facing trial. In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier. In 1964, American Billy Mills won the 10,000 meter race at the Tokyo Summer Games, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1981, Hosni Mubarak became the new president of Egypt following Anwar Sadat’s assassination. In 2008, Casey Anthony was charged in the death of her daughter, Caylee, and acquitted in 2011. In 2012, Chuck Yeager marked the 65th anniversary of his supersonic flight by breaking the sound barrier again, this time in an F-15.
Today’s birthdays include former White House counsel John W. Dean III, fashion designer Ralph Lauren, football Hall of Famer Charlie Joiner, golf Hall of Famer Beth Daniel, musician Thomas Dolby, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, actor Steve Coogan, TV host Stephen A. Smith, country singer Natalie Maines, singer Usher, actor-comedian Jay Pharoah, and NFL quarterback Jared Goff.
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