Historical Events1869 - Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis1873 - British Naval Officer John Moresby is the first European to discover Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, claims it for the United Kingdom1877 - 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky1944 - World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers1994 - Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexualsMore Historical Events Famous Birthdays1809 - Henry Walton Wessells, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lietchfield, Connecticut (d. 1889)1883 - Shiga Naoya, Japanese novelist (Road Through Dark Night), born in Ishinomaki, Japan (d. 1971)1934 - Bobby Unser, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1968, 1975, 1981; USAC C'ship 1968, 1974), born in Colorado Springs (d. 2021)1985 - Julia Volkova, Russian pop singer (t.A.T.u. -single, "All the Things She Said"), born in Moscow2003 - Olivia Rodrigo, American actress and singer-songwriter ("Driver's License"), born in Temecula, CaliforniaMore Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths1903 - Charles Doolittle, American general (Union volunteer), dies at 701995 - John Humphreys Whitfield, British scholar of Italian language and literature, dies at 882001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American radio, film, and television character actress (Love That Bob - "Margaret", That Girl - "Mrs. Marie"; The Partridge Family - "Amanda Renfrew"), dies of pneumonia at 902005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), commits suicide via a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 672025 - David L. Boren, American politician (Governor of Oklahoma 1975-79; Sen-D-Oklahoma 1979-94), dies at 83More Famous Deaths