Phillies win their first World Series in 98 years, 1980
Carrie Fisher's Birthday, 1956
"Whitey" Ford's Birthday, 1928
"Dizzy" Gillespie's Birthday, 1917
Thomas Edison invents first practical light bulb, 1879
Alfred Nobel's Birthday, 1833
British, led by Horatio Nelson, defeat Franco-Spanish fleet in Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
"Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
Jackie Kennedy remarries and becomes Mrs. Aristotle Onassis, 1968
Keith Hernandez's Birthday, 1953
Public hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities open, 1947
General Douglas MacArthur begins reconquest of Philippines with landing at Leyte Gulf, 1944
Mickey Mantle's Birthday, 1931
Joyce Brothers' Birthday, 1928
Art Buchwald's Birthday, 1925
Wall Street Crash, 1987
Amy Carter's Birthday, 1967
Marlon Brando's stage debut, 1944
End of Revolutionary War. Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at Yorktown, 1781
Lew Alcindor [Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] scores 29 points in his first NBA game, 1969
Bob Beamon long jumps 29' 2.5", 1968
Tommie Smith and John Carlos are expelled from Olympics for making Black Power salute, 1968
Erin Moran's Birthday, 1961
Pam Dawber's Birthday, 1951
Mike Ditka's Birthday, 1939
George C. Scott's Birthday, 1927
Jesse Helms' Birthday, 1921
Pierre Trudeau's Birthday, 1919
Formal transfer of Alaska from Russia, 1867
Great San Francisco Earthquake, 1989
President Jimmy Carter posthumously restores citizenship rights of Jefferson Davis, 1978
Arab Nations begin oil embargo of U.S. after outbreak of war with Israel, 1973
Danny Ferry's Birthday, 1966
Evel Knievel's Birthday, 1938
Rita Hayworth's Birthday, 1918
Arthur Miller's Birthday, 1915
Pope John Paul I's Birthday, 1912
Battle of Saratoga ends with British surrender, 1777
Bishop Desmond Tutu awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
Pope John Paul II becomes first Polish Pope ever and first non-Italian Pope in 456 years, 1978
China detonates its first atomic bomb, 1964
Manute Bol's Birthday, 1962
10 defendants of Nuremberg Trials are hanged, 1946
Gordie Howe scores his first NHL goal, 1946
Suzanne Somers' Birthday, 1946
Angela Lansbury's Birthday, 1925
David Ben-Gurion's Birthday, 1886
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry [WV], 1859
Oscar Wilde's Birthday, 1854
Noah Webster's Birthday, 1758
Gorbachev awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 1990
Department of Transportation created, 1966
Sarah Ferguson's Birthday, 1959
"I Love Lucy" first broadcast, 1951
Roscoe Tanner's Birthday, 1951
Penny Marshall's Birthday, 1942
Lee Iacocca's Birthday, 1924
Mario Puzo's Birthday, 1920
Mata Hari is executed after refusing blindfold and throwing a kiss to firing squad, 1917
Arthur Schlesinger's Birthday, 1917
Clayton Antitrust Act Passes, 1914
John Kenneth Galbraith's Birthday, 1908
John L. Sullivan's Birthday, 1858
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche's Birthday, 1844
Virgil's Birthday, 70 B.C.
Bob Dylan plays at West Point Military Academy, 1990
Martin Luther King, Jr awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 1964
John Kennedy first speaks about the possibility of the Peace Corps, 1960
Charlie Joyner's Birthday, 1947
Chuck Yeager is first to break sound barrier, 1947
Ralph Lauren's Birthday, 1939
John Dean's Birthday, 1938
Roger Moore's Birthday, 1928
Charles Everett Koop's Birthday, 1916
E. E. Cummings' Birthday, 1894
Dwight David Eisenhower's Birthday, 1890
William Penn's Birthday, 1644
Jim Thorpe is reinstated into the International Olympic Committee Record Books, 1982
First World Series night game [Pittsburgh beats Baltimore 4-3], 1971
Jerry Rice's Birthday, 1962
Marie Osmond's Birthday, 1959
Art Garfunkel's Birthday, 1942
Margaret Thatcher's Birthday, 1925
Nipsey Russell's Birthday, 1924
France ratifies World War I Treaty of Versailles, 1919
First World Series opens [Pittsburgh vs. Boston], 1903
Continental Congress establishes Navy, 1775
Molly Pitcher's Birthday, 1754
Failed assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher by the Irish Republican Army, 1984
Kirk Cameron's Birthday, 1970
During speech at U.N., Krushchev pounds table with his shoe, 1960
Susan Anton's Birthday, 1950
Tony Kubek's Birthday, 1936
Luciano Pavarotti's Birthday, 1935
Cornerstone for the White House laid, 1792
Christopher Columbus discovers America, 1492
