September
1st
1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1859 1st pullman sleeping car in service
1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards"
1923 Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama - kills 106,000
1932 Jimmy Walker resigns as NYC mayor (graft charges)
1939 Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1941 Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear
1945 Japan surrenders ending WWII (US Date, Sept 2 in Japan)
1948 UN's World Health Organization forms
1972 Bobby Fisher (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
Birthdays:
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck (opera composer) Germany
1866 James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (heavyweight champion 1892-97)
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs (novelist - Tarzan)
1907 Walter Reuther (labor leader)
1910 Jack Hawkins (actor) London, Eng.
1923 Rocky Marciano (heavyweight champion 1952-56)
1933 Ann Richards (TX Governor)
1933 Conway Twitty [Harold Jenkins] (country singer)
1939 Lily Tomlin (comedienne/actress)
1946 Barry Gibb (singer - Bee Gees)
1957 Gloria Estefan (singer) Cuba
2nd
31 BC Battle of Actium, Octavian defeats Marc Antony
1789 US Treasury Dept established by Congress
1864 Union General Wm. T. Sherman captures Atlanta
1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri
1963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
Birthdays:
1838 Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani last queen of Hawaii
1919 Marge Champion (dancer - Marge & Gower Champion)
1948 Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (teacher/astronaut)
1948 Terry Brandshaw (NFL QB)
1951 Mark Harmon (actor)
1952 Jimmy Connors (tennis star)
1964 Keanu Reeves (actor)
3rd
1189 King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
1752 This day never happened nor the next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar.
People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
1783 Treaty of Paris (ending the Revolutionary War)
1895 1st pro football game played - Latrobe, Pennsylvania
1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hrs later, followed by Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
Birthdays:
1856 Louis Henri Sullivan (father of modern US architecture) Boston
1913 Alan Ladd (actor)
1914 Kitty Carlisle Hart (actress) New Orleans
1931 Mitzi Gaynor (actress) Chicago
1942 Al Jardine (Beachboys)
1965 Charlie Sheen [Carlos Estevez] (actor)
4th
1886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
1888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
1951 1st transcontinetal TV broadcast, by Pres. Truman
1957 Ford Motor Co. intrduces the Edsel
1972 Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic Gold Medals
Birthdays:
1846 Daniel Burnham (architect/built skyscapers) US
1918 Paul Harvey (news commentator) Tulsa, OK
1920 Craig Claiborne (food columnist NY Times)
1928 Dick York (actor - Bewitched) Fort Wayne, IN
5th
1774 1st Continental Congress assembles in Philadelpia
1836 Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1914 Battle of Marne (WWI) begins
1960 Cassius Clay wins gold medal in Olympics
1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics
1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Pres. Ford
Birthdays:
1902 Darryl F. Zanuck (Hollywood producer)
1923 Arthur C Nielsen (TV's Nielsen Ratings)
1927 Paul Volcker (Federal Reserve Chairman)
1929 Bob Newhart (comedian) Oak Park, IL
1940 Raquel Welch (actress) Chicago, IL
1946 Freddie Mercury (rock vocalist - Queen)
6th
1620 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England for the New World
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 President Wm. McKinley is shot by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo, NY
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1966 Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV
Birthdays:
1757 Marquis de Lafayette (American patriot, French revolutionary)
1766 John Dalton (chemist - developed atomic theory of matter)
1860 Jane Addams (social worker/Nobel Prize winner 1931)
1888 Joseph P Kennedy (financier/bootlegger/diplomat - father of JFK, RFK)
1937 Jo Anne Worley (comedienne - Laugh In) Lowell, IN
1947 Jane Curtin (actress - SNL) Cambridge, MA
7th
1822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal
1927 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF
1936 Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) begins operation
1940 Luftwaffe blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
1963 1st US TV appearance of the Beatles (Big Night Out - ABC)
Birthdays:
1533 Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII
1860 Grandma (Anna Maria) Moses (primitive painter) NY
1908 Dr. Michael E DeBakey (artifical heart pioneer)
1909 Elia Kazan (director) Constantinople, Turkey
1914 James Van Allen (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
1923 Peter Lawford (actor) London, Eng.
1936 Buddy Holly (singer)
1942 Garrison Keillor (humorist)
1942 Richard Roundtree (actor - Shaft)
1956 Michael Feinstein (pianist/singer)
8th
1565 1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, FL)
1863 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX
1892 1st appearance of "The Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)
1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave destroy Galveston, TX
(most deadly in US history
1920 US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
1921 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman)
1930 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
1935 Huey P Long assassinated at Baton Rouge Capital Building
1939 FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WWII
1944 1st V-2 rocket lands in Britian
Birthdays:
1157 Richard I (the Lion Hearted)
1922 Sid Ceaser (comedian) Yonkers, NY
1925 Peter Sellers (actor) England
1932 Patsy Cline (country singer)
9th
1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies" - "United States"
1850 California becomes 31st State
1850 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1908 Orville Wright makes first 1 hour flight, Fort Myer, VA
1943 Italy surrenders to the Allies
1956 Elvis' first appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
Birthdays:
1585 Cardinal Richelieu (Louis XIII chief minister)
1754 Wm Bligh (Capt. HMS Bounty)
1828 Leo Tolstoy (novelist) Russia
1887 Alfred "Alf" Landon (Presidential Candidate 1932, 1936)
1890 Harland Sanders (KFC founder/colonel)
1919 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder (gambler/sportscaster)
1925 Cliff Robertson (actor "PT 109") La Jolla, CA
1935 Chaim Topol (actor - Fiddler on the Roof) Tel Aviv, Israel
1941 Otis Redding (singer - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay) GA
1949 Joe Theismann (NFL QB)
1950 Tom Wopat (actor - The Dukes of Hazzard) Wisconsin
1951 Michael Keton (actor - Batman) Pittsburgh
1952 Angela Cartwright (actress - Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space, Sound of Music) England
10th
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, VA
1776 George Washington asks for spy volunteer - Nathan Hale volunteers
1823 Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
1846 Elias Howe patents the sewing machine
1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1924 Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
1939 Canada declares war on Germany
1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV Dinner"
1955 Gunsmoke premiers on CBS TV
Birthdays:
1907 Fay Wray (actress - King Kong)
1929 Arnold Palmer (golfer)
1934 Roger Maris (Yankee)
1945 Jose Feliciano (singer/songwriter) Lares, PR
11th
1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of Treasury
1850 Jenny Lind ("Swedish Nightingale") gives 1st US concert
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
2001 Worst terrorist attack on American soil: 2819+ die
Birthdays:
1862 O Henry (pen name of Wm. Sidney Porter)
1885 David Herbert "DH" Lawrence (writer) England
1913 Bear Bryant (coach)
1924 Tom Landry (NFL player, coach)
1932 Valentino (fashion designer) Milan, Italy
1940 Brian DePalma (director)
1942 Tom Dreesen (comedian)
12th
1953 Jacqueline Bouvies marries John F Kennedy
1966 The Monkees" premiers on NBC
Birthdays:
1818 Richard Jordan Gatlin (inventor - hand cranked machine gun) US
1880 H. L. Mencken (newspaperman/critic) Baltimore, MD
1888 Maurice Chevalier (actor) Paris
1902 Margaret Hamilton (actress - Wicked Witch of the West) OH
1913 Jesse Owens (track star, spoiled 1936 Olympics for Hitler)
1931 George Jones (country singer)
1940 Linda Gray (actress - Sue Ellen Ewing on "Dallas")
1944 Barry White (singer) Galveston, TX
13th
122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
1788 New York City becomes capital of the US
1814 Francis Scott Key writes the poem that will be come our National Anthem in 1931;
originally titled "The Defence of Fort McHenry"
1948 Margaret Chase Smith elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
Birthdays:
1851 Walter Reed (US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever)
1857 Milton S. Hershey (chocolate maker)
1860 Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing (US commander WWI)
1894 JB Priestly (author)
1916 Roald Dahl (children's author)
1924 Maurice Jarre (composer - Dr. Zhivago - Oscar 1966) Lyons, France
1925 Mel Torme (singer "Velvet Fog") Chicago, IL
1944 Jacqueline Bisset (Actress) England
1944 Peter Cetera (Singer) Chicago
14th
1716 1st Lighthouse in US is lit in Boston Harbor
1752 England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar - 11 days disappear
1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow
1901 President McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin.
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US born saint
Birthdays:
1879 Margaret Sanger (feminist/nurse/birth control proponent)
1908 Clayton Moore (Lone Ranger) Chicago, IL
1938 Walter Koenig (actor- Checkov "Star Trek") Chicago, IL
1944 Joey Heatherton (dancer/actress)
15th
1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry
1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship &
makes swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
1949 The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV
Birthdays:
1789 James Fenimore Cooper (1st major American novelist)
1857 Wm. Howard Taft (27th President)
1889 Robert Benchley (author)
1890 Dame Agatha Christie (mystery writer)
1903 Roy Acuff (country singer)
1921 Jackie Cooper (actor)
1928 Cannonball Adderley (singer)
1946 Oliver Stone (director) NYC
1946 Tommy Lee Jones (actor)
1961 Dan Marino (NFL QB)
16th
1630 Mass. village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1810 Mexican War of Independence begins
1893 Cherokee Strip, OK opened to white settlement homesteaders
1908 General Motors founded by William C Durant
1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest caste separation
1940 FDR approves military draft
1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-In"
Birthdays:
1875 James Cash Penney (dept. store founder)
1914 Allen Funt (Candid Camera)
1924 Bess Myerson (Miss America - 1945)
1924 Lauren Bacall (actress) Staten Island, NY
1925 BB King (blues musician)
1925 Charlie Byrd (musician)
1927 Peter Falk (actor - Colombo)
1949 Ed Begley, Jr (actor)
17th
1787 At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, delegates from 12 states
vote to unanimously approve the proposed US Constitution
1862 Antietam - 26,000 men are dead, wounded or missing by nightfall
as Gen. George B. McClellan's numerically superior forces stop Gen. Robert E. Lee
1939 Soviets invade Eastern Poland taking 200,000 Poles prisoner -
done in accord with the Nazi-Soviet Pact to divide Poland
1947 James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US Secretary of Defense
1953 1st successful separation of Siamese twins
Birthdays:
1907 Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger in St. Paul, Minn.
1923 Hank Williams (country singer)
1928 Roddy McDowall (actor)_
1930 Thomas P. Stafford (astronaut) Weatherford, OK
1931 Anne Bancroft (actress)
1948 John Ritter (actor)
1955 Rita Rudner (comedienne)
18th
1755 Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens
1793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1947 U.S. Air Force established as a separate military service
1965 Get Smart" premiers
Birthdays:
1709 Dr. Samuel Johnson (writer)
1905 Greta Garbo (actress) Stockholm, Sweden
1905 Agness De Mille (choreographer - Oklahoma) NYC
1905 Claudette Colbert (actress) Paris
1905 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (actor - Jack Benny Show) Oakland, CA
1916 Rossano Brazzi (actor) Bologna, Italy
1920 Jack Warden (actor) Newark, NJ
1933 Jimmie Rogers (country singer) Washington
1933 Robert Blake (actor - Baretta) Nutley, NJ
1933 Roman Polanski (director) Paris, France
1940 Frankie Avalon (singer/actor) Philadelphia
1964 Holly Robinson (actress) Philadelphia
19th
1796 George Washington's farewell address
1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elope
1881 James A Garfield (US President) dies of gunshot wound
1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women the right to vote
1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland
Birthdays:
1901 Joseph Pasternak (film producer)
1911 William Golding (author - Lord of the Flies; Nobel Prize 1983) Cornwall, Eng.
1928 Adam West (actor - Batman) Walla Walla, WA
1931 Brook Benton (singer) Camden, SC
1932 Mike Royko (journalist) Chicago
1933 David McCallum (actor - Man From Uncle, NCIS)
1940 Bill Medley (singer - Righteous Bros.) Santa Ana, CA
1940 Paul Williams (composer/singer/actor)
1943 Mama Cass Elliot (singer)
1949 Twiggy [Leslie Hornby] (model/actress) England
1950 Joan Lunden (news host)
20th
1519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world
1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1859 Patent granted on the electric range
1873 Panic on NY Stock Exchange - railroad bond default & bank failure
1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as President
1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
Birthdays:
1878 Upton Sinclair (novelist)
1895 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (composer/jazz pianist) New Orleans
1917 Arnold "Red" Auerbach (NBA coach/GM)
1928 Dr. Joyce Brothers (psychiatrist/$64,000 Question Winner)
1934 Sophia Loren (actress)
1957 Fran Drescher (actress) NYC
21st
1780 Benedict Arnold give British Major Andre plans to West Point
1790 1st French Republic declared
1897 NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
1937 J.R.R. Tolkien publishes "The Hobbit"
1957 Perry Mason" premiers on CBS-TV with Raymond Burr
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice
Birthdays:
1452 Girolamo Savonarola (monk/preacher/reformer) Italy
1776 Nathan Hale hung by British for spying
1866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (author) Bromley, Eng.
1912 Chuck Jones (animator - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
1931 Larry Hagman (actor) Forth Worth, TX
1935 Henry Gibson (comedian - Laugh-In)
1940 Bill Kurtis (newscaster) FL
1944 Fannie Flagg (comediene/writer/actress)
1947 Stephen King (writer)
1950 Bill Murray (comedian/actor) Evanston, IL
22nd
1692 Last person hung for witchcraft in US
1776 Nathan Hale executed as a spy by the British
1817 John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State
1862 President Lincoln says he will free all slaves in all states on Jan 1
1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
1915 Southern Methodist University holds its 1st class
1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway - runs 3,242 performances
1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiers on NBC-TV
1973 Henry Kissinger sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
1991 California University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public
Birthdays:
1791 Michael Faraday (discovered principle of electric motor)
1885 Erich von Stroheim (early film director/actor)
1895 Paul Muni (actor - Oscar 1936 for Angel on My Shoulder)
1902 John Houseman (actor) Bucharest, Romania
1927 Tom Lasorda (baseball manager)
1956 Debby Boone (singer; daughter of Pat Boone)
1960 Joan Jett (singer)
1960 Scott Baio (actor)
23rd
1642 First Harvard College commencement
1780 British spy Major John Andre caught near Tarrytown, NY
1806 Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest
1845 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" released
1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
Birthdays:
484 BC Euripedes (Greek playwright - "Trojan Women")
1838 Victoria Chaflin Woodhull (feminist/reformer/free love/1st female presidential candidate) Ohio
1869 Edgar Lee Masters (poet/novelist - Spoon River Anthology)
1920 Mickey Rooney (actor) Brooklyn, NY
1926 John Coltrane (saxophonist)
1930 Ray Charles (singer/pianist) Albany, GA
1943 Julio Iglesias (singer)
1945 Paul Petersen (actor - Jeff on "The Donna Reed Show")
1949 Bruce Springsteen (musician) Asbury, NY
1967 Harry Connick, Jr (singer)
24th
1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
1883 Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1929 Lt. James H. Doolittle makes 1st all-instrument flight
1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier launches (USS Enterprise)
1968 60 Minutes premiers
1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protestors at Dem. Nat'l. Conv) begins
Birthdays:
1755 John Marshall (4th Supreme Court Chief Justice) VA
1870 Georges Claude (inventor - neon light)
1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald (author) St. Paul, MN
1921 Jim McKay (sportscaster) Philadelphia
1931 Anthony Newley (actor/song writer/singer)
1936 Jim Henson (muppeteer) Greenville, MS
25th
1775 Ethan Allen captured (Revolutionary War Hero)
1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights
1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
1957 Escorted by the 101st Army Airborne Division, nine black students enter the all-white Central
High School in Little Rock, AK
Birthdays:
1887 William Faulkner (author - Nobel Prize 1949 for The Sound & the Fury)
1918 Phil Rizzuto (sportscaster/shortstop) Brooklyn, NY
1926 Aldo Ray (actor)
1931 Barbara Walters (newscaster) Boston, MA
1936 Juliet Prowse (actress/dancer)
1944 Michael Douglas (actor)
1951 Mark Hamill (actor - Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve (actor)
1961 Heather Locklear (actress)
26th
1580 Francis Drake returns to England after circumnavigating globe
1687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec. of State; John Jay 1st Chief Justice;
Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J. Randolph 1st Attorney General
1914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1934 British liner "Queen Mary" is launched
1957 "Westside Story" opens on Broadway
1960 1st Kennedy-Nixon Debate; 1st Presidential TV debate
1962 "Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
Birthdays:
1774 John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed]
1888 T. S. Eliot (poet/dramatist/critic)
1897 Pope Paul VI (262nd Roman Catholic Pope 1963-1978)
1898 George Gershwin (composer)
1914 Jack LaLanne (fitness expert)
1925 Marty Robbins (singer)
1933 Donna Douglas (actress - Beverly Hillbillies)
1948 Olivia Newton-John (singer)
27th
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
1821 Mexican Empire declares its independence
1923 Lou Gehrig's 1st homer
1937 1st Santa Claus school opens in Albion, NY
1939 Warsaw, Poland surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
Birthdays:
1722 Samuel Adams (revolutionary rabble rouser)
1895 George Raft (actor) NYC
1919 Charles H. Percy (Sen-R-IL)
1920 William Conrad (actor)
1934 Wilford Brimley (actor) Salt Lake City, UT
1941 Don Cornelius (TV show host - Soul Train)
1947 Cheryl Tiegs (model)
1947 Meatloaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) (singer) Dallas, TX
1958 Shaun Cassidy (actor/singer) LA
28th
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins - last battle of the Revolutionary War
Birthdays:
1573 Caravaggio (painter) Italy
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins (author - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1902 Ed Sullivan (TV host/columnist)
1905 Max Schmeling (world heavyweight boxing champ 1930-32) Germany
1909 Al Capp (cartoonist - Lil Abner)
1916 Peter Finch (actor)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni (actor)
1934 Brigitte Bardot (actress) Paris, France
1938 Ben E King (singer - Stand By Me)
1948 Phil Hartman (comedian)
29th
1789 1st Congress adjourns
1789 US War Department establishes a regular army
1829 Scotland Yard formed in London
1953 Milton Berle Show premiers
1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kill 7 in Chicago
Birthdays:
1758 Horation Nelson (naval hero Trafalgar)
1901 Enrico Fermi (physicist Nobel Prize 1938)
1907 Gene Autry (cowboy/singer/actor) Tioga, TX
1908 Greer Garson (actress) Ireland
1913 Stanley Kramer (producer/director)
1916 Trevor Howard (actor) England
1923 O.A. "Bum" Phillips (football coach)
1929 Bob Newhart (actor/comedian) Oak Park, IL
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis (singer)
1943 Lech Walesa (Poland)
1948 Bryant Gumbel (sportscaster) New Orleans
30th
1452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1949 Berlin Airlift ends
1955 actor James Dean killed in car accident
1960 The Flintstones premiers
1960 Howdy Doody's last show
Birthdays:
1921 Deborah Kerr (actress) Scotland
1924 Truman Capote (writer)
1928 Elie Wiesel (author & Nazi hunter - Nobel Prize 1986)
1931 Angie Dickinson (actress)
1935 Johnny Mathis (singer)
1943 Marilyn McCoo (singer - 5th Dimension)
1954 Barry Williams (actor - Brady Bunch)
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