TV producer Jeff Corwin

Events in 1967 and 11-7

Events in US in the birth year of Jeff Corwin

• Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23).
• Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2).
• Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).

Birthday Jeff Corwin (11-7) in history

• Day 11-7 year 1533: Pope Clement VII announced an annulment of the marriage of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
• Day 11-7 year 1804: Former U.S. Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was fatally stabbed by his colleague Aaron Burr and died the following afternoon.
• Day 11-7 year 1864: Confederate general Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, DC. They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.
• Day 11-7 year 1914: Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
• Day 11-7 year 1977: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.
• Day 11-7 year 1989: Actor Laurence Olivier died.
• Day 11-7 year 1995: The United States and Vietnam established full diplomatic relations.
• Day 11-7 year 2011: The News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, closes after several allegations that the paper's journalists hacked into voicemail accounts belonging to not only a 13-year-old murder victim, but also the relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.