Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. pleads guilty and agrees to pay $650 million in fines, 1988
Supreme Court upholds new 18-year-old voting age, 1970
Racial segregation ends on Montgomery [AL] bus system, 1956
Chris Evert's Birthday, 1954
Frank Zappa's Birthday, 1940
Jane Fonda's Birthday, 1937
Premier of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", 1937
Phil Donahue's Birthday, 1935
Phileas Fogg completes "around the world in 80 days" trip with one second to spare, 1872
Joseph Stalin's Birthday, 1853
Benjamin Disraeli's Birthday, 1804
Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, 1620
U.S. invades Panama, 1989
Uri Geller's Birthday, 1946
President Roosevelt calls for the U.S. to become the "Arsenal of Democracy", 1940
Harvey S. Firestone's Birthday, 1868
South Carolina is first state to secede from the Union, 1860
Samuel A. Mudd's Birthday, 1833
Louisiana Purchase completed, land area of U.S. is doubled, 1803
Nelson Rockefeller becomes the second unelected Vice President, 1974
Apollo 17, last mission to moon, returns to Earth, 1972
Alyssa Milano's Birthday, 1972
Jennifer Beals' Birthday, 1963
Last Civil War veteran to die [Walter Williams of the Confederacy], 1959
Kevin McHale's Birthday, 1957
Robert Urich's Birthday, 1945
Richard E. Leakey's Birthday, 1944
South Carolina, in response to "Tariff of Abominations", declares State right to nullify federal laws, 1828
Continental Army establishes winter camp at Valley Forge [PA], 1777
Stanley Barrett's rocket car is first to break sound barrier on land, 1979
U.S. offers to negotiate a new canal treaty with Panama, 1964
Charles Oakley's Birthday, 1963
Leonard Maltin's Birthday, 1950
Steven Spielberg's Birthday, 1947
Keith Richards' Birthday, 1943
Ramsey Clark's Birthday, 1927
18th Amendment [Prohibition] submitted to the States by Congress, 1917
Ty Cobb's Birthday, 1886
13th Amendment [abolishing slavery] proclaimed ratified, 1865
New Jersey is 3rd State to ratify Constitution, 1787
Albert King's Birthday, 1959
Bob Guccione's Birthday, 1930
William Safire's Birthday, 1929
Wright Brothers' first successful heavier-than-air flight [Kitty Hawk, NC], 1903
France formally recognizes the independence of the 13 American Colonies, 1777
William "The Refrigerator" Perry's Birthday, 1962
Lesley Stahl's Birthday, 1941
Arthur C. Clarke's Birthday, 1917
U.S. Navy's "Great White Fleet" embarks on an around-the-world tour, 1907
George Santayana's Birthday, 1863
Jane Austen's Birthday, 1775
Boston Tea Party, 1773
Ludwig Van Beethoven's Birthday, 1770
David Wingate's Birthday, 1963
Don Johnson's Birthday, 1949
Nick Buoniconti's Birthday, 1940
"Gone With The Wind" premiers in Atlanta, 1939
U.S. patent for the ice cream cone issued, 1903
J. Paul Getty's Birthday, 1892
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel's Birthday, 1832
Bill Of Rights becomes effective, 1791
"Mad Anthony" Wayne's Birthday, 1745
Patty Duke's Birthday, 1946
Stan Smith's Birthday, 1946
Lee Remick's Birthday, 1935
Charlie Rich's Birthday, 1932
Roald Amundsen is first person to reach South Pole, 1911
James Doolittle's Birthday, 1896
Alabama admitted as 22nd State, 1819
Nostradamus' Birthday, 1503
In response to the Solidarity Union, martial law is imposed in Poland, 1981
Ted Nugent's Birthday, 1949
John Davidson's Birthday, 1941
Bulgaria declares war on U.S., 1941
Tim Conway's Birthday, 1933
Dick Van Dyke's Birthday, 1925
George P. Shultz's Birthday, 1920
Battle of Fredricksburg [VA], 1862
Mary Todd Lincoln's Birthday, 1818
Heinrich Heine's Birthday, 1797
Abel Jansen Tasman discovers New Zealand, 1642
Independence Day [Kenya], 1963
Tracy Austin's Birthday, 1962
Romania declares war on U.S., 1941
Dionne Warwick's Birthday, 1941
Japanese planes sink U.S. Navy gunboat "Panay" in China, 1937
Ed Koch's Birthday, 1924
Bob Barker's Birthday, 1923
Frank Sinatra's Birthday, 1915
William Lloyd Garrison's Birthday, 1805
Pennsylvania is second State to ratify the Constitution, 1787
John Jay's Birthday, 1745
