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Born on this Day
1600: Charles I King of Great Britain and Ireland (1625-49)
1616: Eustache LeSuer
1752: George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary
War.
1831: James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19,1881)
1862: Religious revivalist Billy Sunday
1875: Explorer Hiram Bingham, discoverer of the Inca city of Machu
Picchu
1885: Haldor Lillenas, American hymnwriter. He penned nearly 4,000
Gospel texts and hymn tunes during his lifetime, including "It Is Glory Just to Walk
With Him," Wonderful Grace of Jesus" and "Peace, Peace, Wonderful
Peace."
1905: Trombonist Tommy Dorsey ("The Sentimental Gentlemen of
Swing": I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Treasure Island, The Music Goes Round and
Round, Alone, You, Marie, Song of India, Who, Satan Takes a Holiday, The Big Apple, Once
in a While, Music Maestro Please, Our Love, Indian Summer, All the Things You Are, There
are Such Things, In the Blue of the Evening, Without a Song, I'll Never Smile Again,
Boogie Woogie)
1905: Jimmy Dorsey
1917: Indira (Priyadarshini) Gandhi - prime minister of India for three
consecutive terms (1966-77) and a fourth term (1980-84). She was assassinated by Sikh
extremists.
1919: Actor Alan Young (Mr. Ed, Emmy-Award winning show: The Alan Young
Show [1950]; Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Time Machine)
1921: American baseball player Roy Campanella (Professional National
League (NL) catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose career was cut short as a result of an
automobile accident).
1922: British geophysicist Stanley Keith Runcorn - first to discover
evidence of periodic reversals of the Earth's magnetic field.
1926: Former UN Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
1933: Talk show host Larry (Zeiger) King
1935: Chairman, CEO: General Electric Co. John Francis Welch, Jr.
1936: Talk show host Dick Cavett
1937: Singer Ray Collins (Memories of El Monte)
1938: Broadcasting and sports mogul Ted Turner
1939: Singer Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)
1939: TV journalist Garrick Utley (NBC News, NBC Magazine with David
Brinkley, TV moderator: Meet the Press, First Tuesday)
1941: Actor Dan Haggerty (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, The
Adventures of Frontier Freemont)
1942: Fashion designer Calvin Klein
1943: Musician Fred Lipsius (Group: Blood Sweat & Tears: You've Made
Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, LP: Child is Father to the Man)
1947: Football player Mike Phipps
1949: Sportscaster (Bobby Moore) Ahmad Rashad
1954: Actress Kathleen Quinlan (The Promise, I Never Promised You a Rose
Garden, American Graffiti, Airport '77, Apollo 13)
1955: Actress Glynnis O'Connor (The Deliberate Stranger, Johnny
Dangerously, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Sons and Daughters)
1960: Rock musician Matt Sorum (The Cult; Guns N' Roses)
1961: Actress Meg Ryan (When a Man Loves a Woman, When Harry Met Sally,
D.O.A., Sleepless in Seattle, Flesh and Bone, Top Gun, One of the Boys)
1962: Actress/director Jodie (Alicia) Foster (The Accused, Silence of
the Lambs, Taxi Driver, Napoleon and Samantha, Sommersby, Mayberry RFD, Paper Moon,
Maverick; director: Little Man Tate)
1966: Olympic gold medal runner Gail Devers
1969: Rock musician Travis McNabb (Better Than Ezra)
1971: Singer Tony Rich
1973: Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover
1975: Rhythm-and-blues singer Tamika Scott (Xscape)
0461: St. Hilarius becomes Pope
1231: Death of St. Elisabeth, Princess of Hungary
1317: Philip V "the Tall," proclaims himself
King of France
1493: Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
1522: Election of Clement VII as Pope
1665: Nicholas Poussin, French artist, dies.
1794: The United States and Britain signed the Jay Treaty,
which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
1826: Mendelssohn's music for "A Midsummer Night's
Dream" was first heard in public. It was played in its original form, for two pianos
by Felix and his sister Fanny.
1850: The first life insurance policy issued to a woman
was purchased by 36-year-old Carolyn Ingraham of Madison, New Jersey.
1863: President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in
Pennsylvania . Today's History Focus
1895: Frederick E. Blaisdell, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania patented what he called the paper pencil.
1919: The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a
vote of 55 in favor to 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for
ratification.
1923: A festival was held to honor the merger of the
Hungarian cities of Buda and Pest. The Budapest festival featured the premieres of
Dohnanyi's "Festival Overture"... Kodaly's "Psalmus Hungaricus"... and
Bartok's "Dance Suite."
1928: After 5 years of publication, "TIME"
magazine presented its cover portrait for the first time. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was
the magazine's first cover subject.
1932: Halfback Joe Kershallo scored 71 points to lead West
Liberty State College of West Virginia to a staggering 127-0 win over Cedarville College,
Ohio.
1942: During World War Two, Russian forces launched their
winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.
1943: Stan Kenton and his Orchestra recorded
"Artistry in Rhythm", the song that later become the Kenton theme. It was
Capitol record number 159. The other side of the disk was titled, "Eager
Beaver."
1954: Sammy Davis, Jr. was involved in a serious auto
accident in San Bernardino, California. Three days later, Davis lost the sight in his left
eye. He later called the accident the turning point of his career.
1954: Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service
on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The nation's first automatic toll collector
accepted only correct change and required a quarter.
1959: The last Edsel rolled off the assembly line. Ford
Motor Company stopped production of the big flop after two years and a total of 110,847
cars.
1961: A year after Chubby Checker reached the #1 spot with
"The Twist", the singer appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to sing the
song again. "The Twist" became the first record to reach #1 a second time
around. It went #1 for the second time on January 13, 1962.
1966: Six weeks before his 31st birthday, LA Dodgers
pitcher, Sandy Koufax, plagued by arthritis, announced his retirement from baseball.
Koufax compiled a 12-season record of 165 wins, 87 losses and 2,396 strikeouts.
1969: "Apollo 12" astronauts Charles Conrad and
Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab
leader to visit Israel.
1984: 20-year-old Dwight Gooden, of the New York Mets,
became the youngest major-league pitcher to be named Rookie of the Year in the National
League. The Mets pitcher led the majors with 276 strikeouts.
1985: A Houston jury ruled Texaco must pay $10.5 billion,
the largest damage award in United States history, to Pennzoil Company for Texaco's 1984
acquisition of Getty Oil Co.
1985: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
1987: Congressional budget negotiators finished all but
the final details of a two-year, $75 billion deficit reduction pact, but not in time to
avert spending cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman Act.
1988: Shipping heiress Christina Onassis died in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, at age 37.
1989: Funeral services were held in El Salvador for six
Jesuit priests slain by uniformed gunmen. The archbishop of El Salvador said the killings
"place our country in the first place of barbarity in the world."
1990: Leaders of 16 NATO members and the remaining six
Warsaw Pact nations signed treaties in Paris making sweeping cuts in conventional arms
throughout Europe and pledging non-aggression toward one another.
1990: Pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy
Award because other singers had lent their voices to the "Girl You Know It's
True" album.
1991: The U.S. House of Representatives sustained
President Bush's veto of a bill that would have lifted his ban on federally financed
abortion counseling.
1991: Officials in Moscow announced that Eduard
Shevardnadze was returning to his former post as Soviet foreign minister.
1992: President Bush's mother, Dorothy, died in Greenwich,
Connecticut, at age 91.
1992: President-elect Clinton paid a call on Congress,
pledging an open door to Democrats and Republicans alike.
1993: The Chicago Symphony Chamber Music Series played
with Ruben Gonzalez, Gregory Smith and Lenore Lams performing Stravinsky's "Histoire
du Soldat" and Berg's "Adagio", each as arranged for clarinet, violin and
piano.
1993: The US Senate approved a sweeping $22.3 billion
anti-crime measure.
1993: President Clinton met in Seattle with Chinese
President Jiang Zemin.
1994: The U.N. Security Council, anxious to stop Serb
attacks on the "safe area" of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, authorized NATO to bomb
rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.
1995: The Clinton administration and Republican
congressional leaders reached a deal to end a six-day budget standoff and resulting
partial government shutdown.
1995: Polish President Lech Walesa was defeated in his bid
for re-election.
1996: Fourteen people were killed when a commuter plane
collided with a private plane at an airport in Quincy, Illinois.
1996: The space shuttle "Columbia" lifted off
with the oldest crew member to date, 61-year-old Story Musgrave.
1996: The United States vetoed UN Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali's bid for a second term. 1997: Iowa seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave
birth to four boys and three girls -- the only second set of septuplets known to be born
alive.
1997: The space shuttle "Columbia" zoomed into
orbit on a two-week science mission.
1998: Movie director Alan Pakula died in a car accident on
Long Island, New York, at age 70.
1998: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence against President Clinton, then defended his investigation under withering questions from Democrats, during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee
1999: Hundreds of anti-American protesters battled riot police and set stores and banks ablaze as President Clinton rode through Athens in a tight security cocoon and proclaimed a "profound and enduring friendship" with Greece.
1999: World leaders at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Turkey signed a treaty cutting the number of tanks and non-nuclear weapons systems across Europe.
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