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1913: Zipper patented.Swedish Canadian Gideon Sundback received a U.S. patent this day in 1913 for the modern “hookless” zipper, which improved on the clasp locker exhibited by Whitcomb Judson at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.More events on this day1992:Riots erupted in Los Angeles in response to the verdict of a highly publicized trial of four white Los Angeles police officers who were acquitted of charges related to the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist who had resisted arrest. |
1945:The U.S. Seventh Army liberated tens of thousands of inmates at the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. |
1936:Orchestral conductor Zubin Mehta was born in Bombay (Mumbai), India. |
1916:About 10,000 British troops surrendered to Ottoman Turks at Al-K¨±t, Iraq, following a five-month siege during World War I. |
1899:American composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington, among the most significant figures in jazz history, was born. |
1429:French national heroine Joan of Arc and her troops entered the besieged city of Orléans during the Hundred Years' War. |
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