Independence Day [Trinidad and Tobago], 1962
Independence Day [Malaysia], 1957
Edwin Moses' Birthday, 1955
Richard Gere's Birthday, 1949
Last meeting of the civil war veterans organization The Grand Army of the Republic, 1949
Van Morrison's Birthday, 1945
Frank Robinson's Birthday, 1935
Buddy Hackett's Birthday, 1924
Arthur Godfrey's Birthday, 1903
Great Charleston [SC] Earthquake, 1886
First emergency hot-line between White House and Kremlin set up, 1963
James Meredith attempts to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi, 1962
Senate filibuster record of 24 hrs, 27 min. set by Strom Thurmond against a civil rights bill, 1957
John Landis' Birthday, 1950
Tug McGraw's Birthday, 1944
Jean-Claude Killy's Birthday, 1943
Ted Williams' Birthday, 1918
Fred MacMurray's Birthday, 1908
Huey Long's Birthday, 1893
The Beatles last concert as a group [Candlestick Park, San Francisco], 1966
Michael Jackson's Birthday, 1958
Bob Beamon's Birthday, 1946
Rajiv Gandhi's Birthday, 1944
Eliott Gould's Birthday, 1938
Sir Richard Attenborough's Birthday, 1923
Ingrid Bergman's Birthday, 1915
Oliver Wendell Holmes' Birthday, 1809
Shays Rebellion begins, 1786
Sebastian Coe runs the mile in a record of 3:47, 1981
Janet Evans' Birthday, 1971
Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his "I Have a Dream" Speech to over 200,000 in Washington, DC, 1963
Scott Hamilton's Birthday, 1958
Ron Guidry's Birthday, 1950
David Soul's Birthday, 1946
Lou Piniella's Birthday, 1943
Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Birthday, 1749
By Presidential order, U.S. Army seizes all railroads to prevent a general strike, 1950
62 nations sign Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war as an instrument of national policy, 1928
Mother Teresa's Birthday, 1910
Lyndon Baines Johnson's Birthday, 1908
Congress enacts first peace-time Federal Income Tax, 1894
First commercially viable oil well drilled [Titusville, PA], 1859
Hannibal Hamlin's Birthday, 1809
Rioting at Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968
International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto, 1961
Soviets announce successful test of ICBM, 1957
First televised Major League Baseball game, 1939
Geraldine Ferraro's Birthday, 1935
19th Amendment gives women the right to vote, 1920
Albert Sabin's Birthday, 1906
Krakatoa erupts, 1883
John Wilkes Booth's Birthday, 1838
Solidarity takes over Polish Government; first non-communist government in Eastern Bloc, 1989
Elvis Costello's Birthday, 1954
Gene Simmons' Birthday, 1949
Rollie Fingers' Birthday, 1946
Allies liberate Paris from German occupation, 1944
Sean Connery's Birthday, 1930
Althea Gibson's Birthday, 1927
Monty Hall's Birthday, 1923
Leonard Bernstein's Birthday, 1918
Walt Kelly's Birthday, 1913
Erich Honecker's Birthday, 1912
Matthew Webb is first person to swim across the English Channel, 1875
Independence Day [Uruguay], 1825
Allan Pinkerton's Birthday, 1819
Pete Rose banned from baseball, 1989
Cal Ripken, Jr's Birthday, 1960
Steve Guttenberg's Birthday, 1958
Gerry Cooney's Birthday, 1956
Communist Party outlawed in U.S., 1954
British forces invade and occupy Washington, DC, 1814
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre [France], 1572
Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, A.D. 79
First man-powered flight [Gossamer Condor], 1977
River Phoenix's Birthday, 1970
Shelly Long's Birthday, 1949
Rick Springfield's Birthday, 1949
In his first Major League Game, Bob Feller strikes out the first 8 batters he pitches to, 1936
Barbara Eden's Birthday, 1934
Sonny Jorgensen's Birthday, 1934
Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
Japan declares war on Germany, 1914
Gene Kelly's Birthday, 1912
Oliver Perry's Birthday, 1785
Nolan Ryan becomes first Major League pitcher to strike out 5000 batters, 1989
Paul Molitor's Birthday, 1956
Cindy Williams' Birthday, 1948
Carl Yastrzemski's Birthday, 1939
Ray Bradbury's Birthday, 1920
Dorothy Parker's Birthday, 1893
"America" wins the first ever America's Cup race, 1851
Samuel P. Langley's Birthday, 1834
