TODAY IN HISTORY

1483

England’s King Richard III was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1854

The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.

1885

French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.

1933

The first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League 4-2.

1942

Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a “secret annex” in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested.

1944

An estimated 168people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut.