Last episode of "MASH" is broadcast, 1983
Adrian Dantley's Birthday, 1956
Bubba Smith's Birthday, 1945
Bernadette Peters' Birthday, 1944
Mario Andretti's Birthday, 1940
Tommy Tune's Birthday, 1939
Gavin MacLeod's Birthday, 1930
Linus Pauling's Birthday, 1901
Republican Party formed at Ripon, Wisconsin, 1854
Explosion of the "Peacemaker Gun" aboard the U.S.S. "Princeton" kills the Secretary of State and Navy; President Tyler narrowly escapes death, 1844
Allied troops liberate Kuwait City from Iraqi occupation, 1997
James Worthy's Birthday, 1961
22nd [two-term Presidency] Amendment adopted, 1951
Ralph Nader's Birthday, 1934
Elizabeth Taylor's Birthday, 1932
John Steinbeck's Birthday, 1902
Independence Day [Dominican Republic], 1844
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Birthday, 1807
Ferdinand Marcos flees from Philippines, 1986
Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for first time, 1980
The Ayatollah Khomeini makes triumphant return to Iran, 1979
Rolando Blackman's Birthday, 1959
Johnny Cash's Birthday, 1932
Fats Domino's Birthday, 1928
Tony Randall's Birthday, 1920
Jackie Gleason's Birthday, 1916
Buffalo Bill [William F.] Cody's Birthday, 1845
Victor Hugo's Birthday, 1802
Revolution Day [Suriname]
Tom Landry, the first and only head coach of Dallas Cowboys, is fired by new owner Jerry Jones, 1989
Kurt Rambis' Birthday, 1958
Communists take control of Czechoslovakia, 1948
George Harrison's Birthday, 1943
Booby Riggs' Birthday, 1918
16th Amendment [authorizes the Federal Income Tax] proclaimed ratified, 1913
John Foster Dulles' Birthday, 1888
Pierre Renoir's Birthday, 1841
Samuel Colt receives a patent for his revolver, 1836
Independence Day [Estonia]
U.S. Olympic Hockey Team wins Gold Medal, 1980
President Carter announces that human rights records will be a factor in foreign aid, 1977
First game of Gary Unger's streak of 914 consecutive NHL games, 1968
Eddie Murray's Birthday, 1956
Juan Peron is elected President of Argentina, 1946
Abe Vigoda's Birthday, 1921
Winslow Homer's Birthday, 1910
Chester Nimitz's Birthday, 1885
Honus Wagner's Birthday, 1874
President Johnson is impeached in the House, later acquitted in the Senate by one vote [on May 16] , 1868
Mexico declares independence from Spain, 1821
Supreme Court overturns a U.S. Law for the first time [in Marbury v. Madison], 1803
Wilhelm Grimm's Birthday, 1786
Republic Day [Guyana], 1970
Demolition begins on Ebbets Field, original home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1960
Edward "Too Tall" Jones' Birthday, 1951
U.S. Flag raised on Iwo Jima, 1945
Fred Biletnikoff's Birthday, 1943
Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery in Santa Barbara [CA], 1942
Peter Fonda's Birthday, 1939
Casey Stengel signs his first Major League Baseball manager contract [Brooklyn Dodgers], 1934
Founding of Soviet Army, 1917
Mississippi is readmitted to the Union, 1870
W.E.B. Dubois' Birthday, 1868
Texas secedes from the Union, 1861
Zachary Taylor wins Battle Of Buena Vista in Mexican War , 1847
Siege of Alamo begins, 1836
George Frederick Handel's Birthday, 1685
Independence Day [Saint Lucia], 1979
Julius Erving's Birthday, 1950
Sparky Anderson's Birthday, 1934
Edward Kennedy's Birthday, 1932
Nelson Bunker Hunt's Birthday, 1926
James Russel Lowell's Birthday, 1919
F. W. Woolworth opens first store [Utica, NY], 1879
W.E.B. Du Bois' Birthday, 1868
Republican Party's first national meeting, 1856
Spain cedes Florida to U.S., 1819
Arthur Schopenhauer's Birthday, 1788
George Washington's Birthday, 1732
Martyrs Day [Bangladesh]
U.S. Hockey Team defeats Soviets 8-3 in semifinals of Winter Olympics, 1980
Malcolm X is assassinated, 1965
Christopher Akins' Birthday, 1961
Barbara Jordan's Birthday, 1936
Erma Bombeck's Birthday, 1927
First issue of New Yorker Magazine, 1925
W.H. Auden's Birthday, 1907
Washington Monument dedicated, 1885
Drew Barrymore's Birthday, 1975
"Chicago Seven" convicted, 1970
Charles Barkley's Birthday, 1963
John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth, 1962
Patty Hearst's Birthday, 1954
Sandy Duncan's Birthday, 1946
President Roosevelt approves internment of Japanese-Americans for duration of World War II, 1942
Bobby Unser's Birthday, 1934
Sydney Poitier's Birthday, 1927
Gloria Vanderbilt's Birthday, 1924
William Prescott's Birthday, 1726
Justine Bateman's Birthday, 1966
Hana Mandlikova's Birthday, 1962
Prince Andrew's Birthday, 1960
U.S. Marines hit the beach at Iwo Jima, 1945
Smokey Robinson's Birthday, 1940
Phonograph patented by Edison, 1878
Nicolaus Copernicus' Birthday, 1473
