Birthdays:
1969 ~ Julie Delpy, French model and
actress.
1959 ~
Florence Griffith Joyner (d. 1998), American sprinter, known as FloJo.
1955 ~ Jane Kaczmarek, American
actress.
1954 ~ Christine
“Chris” Evert, American tennis player.
1950 ~ Jeffrey Katzenbert, American
screenwriter and producer. He co-founded
DreamWorks Animation.
1948 ~ Samuel
L. Jackson, American actor.
1947 ~ Paco de Lucía (d. 2014), the Mexican
guitarist who reinvented flamenco.
1940 ~ Frank
Zappa (d. 1993), American musician.
1937 ~ Jane
Fonda, American actress.
1935 ~ Phil Donahue, American talk
show host.
1926 ~ Joseph
Paterno (d. 2012), American football coach at Penn State. He was forced to resign due to a cover-up of a
sex and pedophile scandal by his assistant coach.
1922 ~ Paul Winchell (d. 2005),
American ventriloquist and voice actor.
1921 ~ Robert Lipshutz (d. 2010), 17th
White House Counsel. He served under
President Jimmy Carter.
1918 ~ Donald Regan (d. 2003), 11th
White House Chief of Staff. He served
under President Ronald Reagan. He was
also the 66th Treasurer of the United States, also during the Reagan
Administration.
1918 ~ Kurt
Waldheim (d. 2007), 9th President of Austria and 4th Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
1917 ~
Heinrich Böll (d. 1985), German writer and recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in
Literature.
1915 ~ Werner von Trapp (d. 2007),
Austrian singer and member of the Von Trapp family.
1914 ~ Frank Fenner (d. 2010), Australian virologist
who fought smallpox, malaria and rabbits.
1892 ~ Rebecca
West (d. 1983), British writer.
1891 ~ John William McCormack (d.
1980), 53rd Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United
States Congress.
1890 ~ Hermann
Joseph Muller (d. 1967), American geneticist and recipient of the 1946 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1878 ~ Jan Łukasiewicz (d. 1956),
Polish mathematician.
1877 ~ Jaan Sarv (d. 1954), Estonian
mathematician.
1860 ~ Henrietta Szold (b. 1945), American activist
and founder of Hadassah.
1804 ~
Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1881), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1795 ~ John
Russell (d. 1883), English parson and dog breeder.
1603 ~ Roger
Williams (d. 1684), English theologian and founder of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations.
1118 ~ Thomas
Becket (d. 1170), Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury. He was later murdered and is now an English
saint.
Events
that Changed the World:
1995 ~ The
city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1994 ~ Mexican
volcano Popocatepetl, which had been dormant for 47 years, erupted gases and
ash.
1988 ~ A bomb
exploded aboard Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 270
aboard.
1973 ~ The Geneva
Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict began.
1962 ~ Norway
established its first national park with the creation of Rondane National Park.
1951 ~ Libya gained its
independence. It had been under Italian
control until 1943, when it was under Allied occupation and was under British
and French administration
1946 ~ A massive 8.1 earthquake and
subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan killed over 1,300 people.
1937 ~ The
first full-length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater.
1919 ~ Emma
Goldman, an American anarchist, was deported to Russia.
1913 ~ Arthur
Wayne created the first modern crossword puzzle. It was published in the Sunday edition of the
New York World newspaper.
1907 ~ The Chilean Army committed the
Santa María School massacre by killing an estimated 2000 striking nitrate
miners along with their wives and children.
The massacre occurred at the Domingo Santa María School in Iquique,
Chile.
1879 ~ The world première of Henrik
Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, was
performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1826 ~
American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declared their independence
and started the Fredonian Rebellion.
1620 ~ The
Pilgrims are believed to have landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Good-Byes:
2009 ~ Edwin
Krebs (b. 1918), American biochemist and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine.
1992 ~ Stella Adler (b. 1901),
American actress.
1988 ~
Nikolaas Tinbergen (b. 1907), Dutch ornithologist and recipient of the 1973
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1967 ~ Louis
Washkansky (b. 1913), the first human to have a heart transplant died 18 days
after receiving the transplant.
1945 ~ General
George S. Patton, Jr. (b. 1885), American military commander.
1940 ~ F.
Scott Fitzgerald (née Francis Scott Fitzgerald, b. 1896), American novelist,
best known for his novel The Great Gatsby.
1937 ~ Frank
B. Kellogg (b. 1856), 45th Secretary of State. He served under Presidents Calvin Coolidge
and Herbert Hoover. He was also the
recipient of the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize.
He died 1 day before his 81st birthday.
1900 ~ Roger Wolcott (b. 1847), 39th
Governor of Massachusetts.
1880 ~ Amos Akerman (b. 1821), 31st
US Attorney General. He served during
Ulysses S. Grant administration. He was
born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1824 ~ James
Parkinson (b. 1755), English surgeon, geologist, paleontologist and political
activist. He is most famous for his
description of a condition that would later become known as Parkinson’s
disease.
1549 ~ Marguerite de Navarre (b.
1492), French wife of Henry II of Navarre.
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