When you sit in a suite at the RBIA, you expect to be treated like royalty. One effing Corona is not the way to do this. Shame on you, higher-up's at my mother's work who failed to inform the staff we needed more than 6 beers for 15 people. Shame on you, indeed.
| 1606 | England adopted the Union Jack as its flag. |
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| 1877 | The catcher for Harvard's baseball team, James Tyng, wore a modified fencing mask behind the plate. It is believed to be the first time a catcher's mask was used during a game. |
| 1945 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. |
| 1961 | Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a safe landing. |
| 1981 | The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight. |
| 1983 | Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first African-American mayor. |
| 1999 | U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. |
| 2002 | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later.) |
| 2004 | Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run to tie Willie Mays for third on baseball's career list. (Bonds is now the career leader in home runs.) |
| 2009 | American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. Navy snipers who shot and killed three of the hostage-takers. |
| 2011 | Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale – the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster – even as it insisted radiation leaks were declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant. |
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