A birthday salute to President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York. The highlight is this actress’ rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’. 1962
Marilyn Monroe
94.2%
Audrey Hepburn
1.2%
Elizabeth Taylor
1.4%
Jayne Mansfield
0.7%
This Vietnamese politician, the 1st President of Vietnam, is born. 1890
Ho Chi Minh
75.6%
Võ Nguyên Giáp
9.7%
Pol Pot
8.5%
Mao Zedong
4.1%
The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ‘Letter from ______ Jail.’ 1963
Birmingham
58.9%
Montgomery
29.9%
Jackson
3.7%
Atlanta
4.3%
Mexico ratifies this treaty, thus ending the Mexican–American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and other parts of modern-day US states to the United States. 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
52.2%
Treaty of Texas
17.8%
Treaty of Santa Ana
25.1%
Treaty of Cahuenga
3.9%
Citizens of this nation on the Adriatic Sea vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum. 1991
Croatia
51.3%
Serbia
23.1%
Kosovo
18.1%
Bulgaria
3.8%
Jean-Pierre Christin develops the ______ temperature scale. 1743
Centigrade
48.6%
Fahrenheit
27.4%
Kelvin
16%
Christinium
7.9%
______ Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo. There were no survivors and the reasons for the crash remain uncertain. 2016
EgyptAir
41.6%
Air France
25.6%
Lufthansa
11.3%
KLM
17.4%
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