2004 Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83
2000 "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86
1998 Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57
1992 U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia
1991 Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Philadelphia 32-30
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq
1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
1981 Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
1980 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1980 John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
1980 Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
1974 William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49
1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton
1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin
1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US
1968 Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge
1968 Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
1965 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
1965 Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain
1948 John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham, drummer, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
1947 John Bonham, Redditch England, drummer, Led Zeppelin-Stairway
1946 John Paul Jones, rock bassist, Led Zeppelin
1946 John Paul Jones, rocker, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
1945 Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
1944 Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1944 Jimmy Page, born in London, rock guitarist, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
1943 Robert Plant, English rock vocalist, Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love
1943 U.S. forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily
1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center, led NHL in scoring 4 times
1936 Spanish Civil War begins, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1934 All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan
1925 William Hudson, California, actor, I Led 3 Lives
1918 Robert Feller, MLB pitcher, Red Sox, led AL in strikeouts 7 times
1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1891 Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher, led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs
1880 Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.
1831 Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA
1812 U.S. forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada, War of 1812
1802 Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to U.S. securing Oregon
1800 John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery
1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
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