William Wallace / Income Tax / Marilyn Monroe

-910

The last major Viking army to attack England was defeated by Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Æthelred, at the Battle of Tettenhall.

-1305

William Wallace, leader of the Scottish resistance, is captured near Glasgow by the English and taken to London for execution and trial.

-1583

Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown, making it the first English colony in North America.

-1716

The Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottomans in the Battle of Petrovaradin.

-1861

President Lincoln imposed the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act.

-1864

The Union Navy won the Battle of Mobile Bay with Rear Admiral David Farragut's cry, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!".

-1914

On Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, the world's first electric traffic light was installed.

-1962

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home. In one hand, she held a telephone while lying face down on her bed, nude. The room was littered with empty pills, prescribed to treat her depression.

-1963

Three countries signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which banned nuclear weapons testing in outer space, underwater, or in the atmosphere.

-1983

Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise in a breakthrough performance, opens in U.S. theaters.