Birthdays:
1966 ~ David Schwimmer,
American actor.
1929 ~ Richard E. Taylor,
American physicist and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1914 ~ Ray Walston (d.
2001), American actor best know for his role as the Martian on the television
show, My Favorite Martian.
1913 ~ Burt Lancaster (d.
1994), American actor.
1911 ~ Raphael M. Robinson
(d. 1995), American mathematician.
1911 ~ Odysseas Elytis (d.
1996), Greek poet and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1865 ~ Warren G. Harding (d.
1823), 29th President of the United States.
1815 ~ George Boole (d.
1864), English mathematician and philosopher.
1799 ~ Titian Peale (d.
1885), American photographer.
1795 ~ James Knox Polk (d.
1849), 11th President of the United States.
1755 ~ Marie Antoinette,
Queen of France (d. 1793).
1734 ~ Daniel Boone (d.
1820), American frontiersman.
1470 ~ King Edward V of
England (d. 1483). He was one of the two
princes in the Tower of London.
Events that Changed the World:
1983 ~ President Ronald
Reagan signed a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a national
holiday.
1964 ~ Saudi Arabian King
Saud was deposed by a family coup. He
was replaced by his half-brother, King Faisal.
1959 ~ Game show contestant,
Charles Van Doren (b. 1926), admitted to cheating on the Twenty One.
1936 ~ The British
Broadcasting Corporation began the BBC Television Service.
1936 ~ The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation was established.
1930 ~ Haile Selassie was
crowned emperor of Ethiopia. He would
rule the country until November 2, 1974.
1920 ~ The first commercial
radio station in the US, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began
broadcasting. The first broadcast was
the result of the US presidential election.
1917 ~ The Balfour
Declaration was issued, which proclaimed British support for the establishment
in Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people.
1898 ~ Cheerleading was
started at the University of Minnesota.
Johnny Campbell lead the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1889 ~ North Dakota became
the 39th State of the Union.
1889 ~ South Dakota became
the 40th State of the Union.
1783 ~ General George
Washington gave his “Farewell Address to the Army” in Rocky Hill, New Jersey.
Good-Byes:
2012 ~ Milt Campbell (b. 1933), African-American
superb athlete who won the 1952 Olympic decathlon.
2012 ~ Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (b. 1930), Indian-American
mathematician.
2008 ~ Madelyn Dunham (b.
1922), American grandmother of President Barack Obama.
2008 ~ Henry Loomis (b.
1919), American physicist who led the Voice of America and Public Broadcasting.
2004 ~ Theo van Gogh (b.
1957), Dutch filmmaker.
1970 ~ Cardinal Richard
Cushing (b. 1895), Cardinal and archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts.
1966 ~ Peter Debye (b.
1884), Dutch chemist and recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1963 ~ Ngô Đinh Diêm (b. 1901),
1st President of South Vietnam, was assassinated following a
military coup.
1961 ~ James Thurber (b.
1894), American writer and humorist.
1950 ~ George Bernard Shaw
(b. 1856), Irish playwright and recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in
Literature.
1887 ~ Jenny Lind (b. 1820),
Swedish soprano.
