This Day In History
- Arts
- 1959 Co-founded by Hilla von Rebay, the Guggenheim Museum museum opened in New York City.
- 2018 Singer Dottie West was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.
- 2018 Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presented with the Mark Twain Prize, comedy's top honor, at a ceremony in New York.
- Military
- 1854 Florence Nightingale, with a staff of 38 nurses, is sent to the Crimean War.
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