"A Chorus Line" opens in New York City, 1975
Kent Hrbek's Birthday, 1960
Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs off the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning , 1952
Mr. T''s Birthday, 1952
Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight ever, 1927
Raymond Burr's Birthday, 1917
Armand Hammer's Birthday, 1898
American Red Cross founded, 1881
Alexander Pope's Birthday, 1688
Republic Day [Cameroon]
Bronson Pinchot's Birthday, 1959
Cher's Birthday, 1946
Joe Cocker's Birthday, 1944
Charles Lindbergh departs New York for Paris, 1927
Peggy Lee's Birthday, 1920
Jimmy Stewart's Birthday, 1908
Income Tax ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court, 1895
North Carolina secedes from the Union, 1861
Henri Rousseau's Birthday, 1844
Dolly Madison's Birthday, 1768
Bill Laimbeer, Jr's Birthday, 1957
Grace Jones' Birthday, 1952
Peter Townshend's Birthday, 1945
Frank Lorenzo's Birthday, 1940
Malcolm X's Birthday, 1925
Congress puts sharp curb on immigration, establishes national quota system, 1921
Ho Chi Minh's Birthday, 1890
Nancy Astor's Birthday, 1879
Johns Hopkins' Birthday, 1795
Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon, 1588
Flag Day [Haiti]
Mt. St. Helens erupts, 1980
Yannick Noah's Birthday, 1960
Reggie Jackson's Birthday, 1946
Brooks Robinson's Birthday, 1937
Warren Rudman's Birthday, 1930
Pope John Paul II's Birthday, 1920
Military conscription law passed, 1917
Perry Como's Birthday, 1912
Frank Capra's Birthday, 1897
Bertrand Russell's Birthday, 1872
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emporor of France, 1804
Constitution Day [Norway]
U.S. missle frigate "Stark" hit by an Iraqi missile, 1987
Televised Senate Watergate Hearings begin, 1973
Danny Manning's Birthday, 1966
Sugar Ray Leonard's Birthday, 1956
Supreme Court rules in "Brown v. Board of Education" that segregation in public schools is illegal, 1954
Kathleen Sullivan's Birthday, 1953
Dennis Hopper's Birthday, 1936
Archibald Cox's Birthday, 1912
Ayatollah Khomeini's Birthday, 1900
First Kentucky Derby, 1875
New York Stock Exchange established, 1792
Janet Jackson's Birthday, 1966
Olga Korbut's Birthday, 1955
Debra Winger's Birthday, 1955
First Food Stamp program begins [in Rochester, NY], 1939
First "Oscars" Awarded, 1929
Billy Martin's Birthday, 1928
Liberace's Birthday, 1919
Henry Fonda's Birthday, 1905
William Henry Seward's Birthday, 1801
Police Officer Memorial Day
Soviets begin withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, 1988
Major anti-war protest march in Washington, DC, 1966
George Brett's Birthday, 1953
At&T is first corporation to have one million shareholders, 1951
Truman Doctrine. Congress asked for aid to Greece and Turkey to combat threat of communism, 1947
Ralph Steadman's Birthday, 1936
Supreme Court upholds antitrust breakup of Standard Oil Company, 1911
Congress creates Department of Agriculture, 1862
Pierre Curie's Birthday, 1859
Lyman Frank Baum's Birthday, 1856
Eighty-two ton spacecraft "Skylab" launched, 1973
Warsaw Pact Treaty signed, 1955
David Byrne's Birthday, 1952
Provisional government of Israel established, 1948
U.S. becomes first nation to recognize the state of Israel, 1948
George Lucas' Birthday, 1944
Tony Perez's Birthday, 1942
First public performance of "The Stars and Stripes Forever," 1897
Independence Day [Paraguay], 1811
Lewis and Clark Expedition starts from St. Louis, 1804
Gabriel Fahrenheit's Birthday, 1686
First permanent English settlement in North America established at Jamestown, 1607
Philadelphia police drop C-4 explosives on radicals, killing 11 people and destroying 61 homes, 1985
Failed assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, 1981
Stevie Wonder's Birthday, 1951
Peter Gabriel's Birthday, 1950
Joe Louis' Birthday, 1914
Britain declares neutrality in U.S. Civil War, 1861
U.S. declares war on Mexico, 1846
Emilio Estevez's Birthday, 1962
Berlin Blockade lifted, 1949
Steve Winwood's Birthday, 1948
Truman Doctrine enunciated, promising aid to countries threatened by subversion, 1947
George Carlin's Birthday, 1937
Burt Bacharach's Birthday, 1929
Yogi Berra's Birthday, 1925
Florence Nightingale's Birthday, 1820
Edward Lear's Birthday, 1812
