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On This Day: 10

Matthew — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:32:47 GMT

On This Day:
May 10
This is usually the 130th day of the year, with 235 days remaining in 2007.

Holidays
Feast day of St. Catald, St. Conleth, Saints Gordian and Epimachus, St. Antoninus, St. Alphius, St. Calepodius, St. Solange, and St. John of Avila.
Micronesia: National Day (1979).
Singapore: Vesak Day (Buddha's entry into Nirvana).
Guatemala, Mexico: Mother's Day.
North Carolina, South Carolina: Confederate Memorial Day.

Events
1503 - Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands.
1775 - Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.
1865 - Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis, in Georgia.
1869 - A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1872 - Victoria Woodhull became first woman nominated for U.S. president.
1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during church services in Grafton, West Virginia and Philadelphia.
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover became FBI director, a job he was to hold until his death in 1972.
1940 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.
1941 - The House of Commons was destroyed in the heaviest air raid of London.
1960 - The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Triton completed its circumnavigation of the globe after 84 days.
1981 - Socialist Francois Mitterrand defeated incumbent Valery Giscard d'Estaing in France's presidential election.
1994 - In South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sworn in as that country's first black president.
2003 - The "New York Times" announced that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud."

Births
1832 - William Grace, Irish-born American ship-owner; founder of W. R. Grace & Company.
1899 - Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), American dancer, actor.
1902 - David O. Selznick, American movie producer.

Deaths
1818 - Paul Revere, American Revolution hero.
1863 - Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson died of pneumonia a week after losing his arm from friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville.

On This Day: May 1

Matthew — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:03:04 GMT

On This Day:
May 1
This is usually the 121st day of the year, with 244 days remaining.

Holidays
May Day, celebrating the return of spring; it is known by various names in different countries and religions.
Feast day of St. Asaph, St. Corentin, St. Joseph, St. Brioc, St. Amator, S. Marcoul, Saints Philip and James, St. Peregrine Laziosi, St. Sigismund of Burgundy, and St. Theodard of Narbonne.
United States: Law Day.
Marshall Islands: Constitution Day.
Russia: International Labor Day.

Events
1707 - The Union of England and Scotland was proclaimed.
1851 - The Great Exhibition opened to wide acclaim in the Crystal Palace in London, showcasing technological wonders from around the world.
1883 - Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) staged his first Wild West Show.
1884 - The first skyscraper in America began construction: a 10-story building on the corner of LaSalle and Adams in Chicago, Illinois.
1898 - Commodore George Dewey commanded, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as a U.S. naval force decimated a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
1941 - The film "Citizen Kane," directed by and starring Orson Welles, opened in New York.
1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed.
1960 - The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.
1963 - James Whittaker of Redmond, Washington, became the first American to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
1967 - Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.
1971 - Amtrak -- which combined and streamlined the operations of 18 intercity passenger railroads -- went into service.
1997 - After 18 years of Conservative rule, Tony Blair and the Labour Party accomplished a landslide victory in British parliamentary elections.
1999 - The Liberty Bell 7, the Mercury space capsule flown by Gus Grissom, was found in the Atlantic Ocean 300 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral, 38 years after it sank.
2001 - Thomas Blanton, Jr. became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four black girls.

Births
1839 - Louis-Maire-Hilaire Bernigaud, French chemist, inventor of rayon.
1909 - Kate Smith, American singer, entertainer.
1916 - Glenn Ford, American film actor.
1918 - Jack Paar, American TV host.
1923 - Joseph Heller, American author.

Deaths
1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian motor-racing driver.

On This Day: April 30

Matthew — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:18:39 GMT

On This Day:
April 30
This is usually the 120th day of the year, with 245 days remaining.

Fact of the Day: Grauman`s Chinese Theater
Grauman`s Chinese Theater, famous for the many footprints and handprints of movie and television stars in its concrete forecourt, officially opened in Hollywood, California on May 18, 1927. However, the first footprint ceremony took place before that on April 30, 1927, honoring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.; the second footprint ceremony took place on opening day, honoring Norma Talmadge. Sid Grauman built the theater and was a one-third partner in the venture, while Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. shared a third and Howard Schenck held the other third. After Ted Mann purchased the theater in 1973, the name was changed to "Mann`s Chinese Theater" until 2001, when the original name was restored. The theater, rich in movie history, is still sought after by studios for Hollywood premieres.

Holidays
Feast day of St. Erkenwald, St. Pius V, pope, St. Forannan, St. Wolfhard, St. Maximus of Ephesus, St. Eutropius of Saintes, and Saints Marianus and James.
Walpurgis Night / Beltane / Beltane / May Eve / Cyntefyn / Roodmass / Cethsamhain / Feast of Valborg.
Netherlands: Queen Juliana`s Birthday / Koninginnedag / Dutch National Day (also marking accession of Queen Beatrix in 1980).
Vietnam: Liberation Day.
Finland: May Day Eve.
Mexico: Children`s Day

Events
1789 - In New York City, George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America.
1798 - The U.S. Department of the Navy was established.
1803 - The United States completed negotiations with France to buy the Louisiana Purchase, agreeing agreed to pay $11,250,000 and assumed claims of its citizens against France in the amount of $3,750,000.
1812 - Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.
1900 - Hawaii was organized as a United States territory.
1931 - The first George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opened.
1939 - The New York World`s Fair officially opened.
1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first president to appear on television when he opened the New York World`s Fair. However, the broadcast was beamed to only 200 television sets.
1947 - President Harry Truman signed a measure officially changing the name of Boulder Dam to Hoover Dam.
1948 - The Organization of American States held its first meeting, in Bogota, Colombia.
1970 - President Richard Nixon announced the U.S. was sending troops into Cambodia, sparking widespread protest.
1973 - In the midst of the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean. President Nixon accepted responsibility for the bugging of the Watergate building but denied any personal involvement.
1975 - The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces, effectively ending the Vietnam War.
1980 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicated and was succeeded by her daughter, Beatrix.
1993 - Professional tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed while resting courtside during a match at Hamburg, Germany. She suffered a puncture wound and was released from the hospital a few days later.

Births
1777 - Karl Gauss, German mathematician and astronomer.
1898 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American reporter, columnist, author.

Deaths
1945 - Adolf Hitler committed suicide (by shooting himself), along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun (who took poison).

On This Day: April 29

Matthew — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:05:10 GMT

On This Day:
April 29
This is usually the 119th day of the year, with 246 days remaining.

Holidays
Feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, St. Wilfrid the Younger, St. Hugh of Cluny, St. Endellion, St. Joseph Cottolengo, St. Robert of Molesme, and St. Peter the Martyr.
Japan: Greenery Day.

Events
1429 - Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English.
1813 - A patent for rubber was given to J.F. Hummel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's "Thesaurus" was published.
1854 - Ashmun Institute, the first college founded solely for African-American students, was officially chartered.
1861 - Maryland voted against seceding from the Union.
1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
1864 - Theta Xi, a fraternity, was founded - in Troy, New York.
1913 - Swedish-born U.S. inventor Gideon Sundback patented the zipper.
1945 - American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp, the first concentration camp established by the Nazi regime.
1945 - Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor. Hitler killed himself the next day.
1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals.
1992 - Four white policemen in Los Angeles were acquitted of beating Rodney King, a black motorist, despite videotape evidence.
2003 - The Palestinian parliament approved Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister.

Births
1792 - Matthew Vassar, American, brewer, founder and namesake of Vassar College.
1818 - Alexander II, Russian emperor (1855-81), emancipated the serfs in 1861.
1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publishing magnate.
1899 - Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader.
1901 - Hirohito, Japan's longest reigning emperor (1926-1989).
1936 - Zubin Mehta, Indian-born American conductor, and son of Mehli Mehta, founder of the Bombay Symphony.
1951 - Dale Earnhardt, stock car driver, with one of the most successful careers in motorsports.
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian and television celebrity.
1970 - Andre Agassi, professional tennis player.

Deaths
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director.

On This Day: April 28

Matthew — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:29:16 GMT

On This Day:
April 28
This is usually the 118th day of the year, with 247 days remaining.

Holidays
Feast day of St. Louis de Montfort, St. Vitalis, St. Peter Mary Chanel, St. Cyril of Turov, St. Valeria, St. Pollio, Saints Theodora and Didymus, St. Pamphilus of Sulmona, and St. Cronan Roscrea.
Afghanistan: Islamic State's Victory Day (1992).

Events
1788 - Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America.
1789 - The mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurred, as Fletcher Christian and the crew of the British ship set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a small open boat in the South Pacific.
1896 - The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan of Sioux City, Iowa.
1919 - The League of Nations was founded.
1932 - A vaccine against yellow fever was announced.
1945 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed as they attempted to flee the country.
1947 - Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia.
1952 - The war with Japan officially ended as a treaty that had been signed by the United States and 47 other nations took effect.
1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of his boxing title.
1969 - French President Charles de Gaulle resigned.
1987 - For the first time, a compact disc of an album was released before its vinyl counterpart: "The Art of Excellence" by Tony Bennett.
1989 - The Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed.
1990 - The musical "A Chorus Line" closed after 6137 performances on Broadway.
1994 - Northwestern University announced the discovery of the gene that controls the "biological clock" (circadian rhythm).
2001 - A Russian rocket took off with the first space tourist, California businessman Dennis Tito, taking him and two cosmonauts to the International Space Station.

Births
1442 - Edward IV, king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), first king of the House of York.
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States of America (1817-1825).
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor.
1886 - Erich Salomon, German photographer, founder of photojournalism.
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian car manufacturer.
1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian, TV talk show host.

Deaths
1918 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian revolutionary assassin who caused World War I by killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian prime minister and fascist dictator.

On This Day: April 27

Matthew — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:14:30 GMT

On This Day:
April 27
This is usually the 117th day of the year, with 248 days remaining.

Holidays
Feast day of St. Zita, St. Machalus, St. Floribert of LiEge, St. Asicus, St. Anthimus of Nicomedia, and Saints Castor and Stephen.
Sierra Leone: Independence Day.
South Africa: Freedom Day.
Yugoslavia: National Day (formation of Yugoslav federation in 1992, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro).
Slovenia: Insurrection Day.
Togo: Independence Day (1960, from France).

Events
1773 - The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the East India Company and grant it a monopoly on the American tea trade.
1805 - After marching 500 miles from Egypt, a small force of U.S. Marines and Berber mercenaries entered Derna, Tripoli, captured it and deposed Yusuf Karamanli, the ruling pasha.
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union.
1865 - Just after the Civil War ended, the Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, exploded and burned, killing more than 1400 passengers -- mostly former Union POWs.
1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1961 - Sierra Leone became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth.
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2005 - The Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

Births
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English feminist author.
1791 - Samuel F.B. Morse, American, telegraph inventor.
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States of America (1869-1877).
1896 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball great.
1896 - Wallace Hume Carothers, American chemist who developed nylon.
1900 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.
1932 - Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem), American disc jockey.
1939 - Judy Carne (born Joyce Botterill), British actress and comedian.
1984 - Patrick Stump (born Patrick Martin Stumph), American musician.

Deaths
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet.
1965 - Edward R. Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow), American journalist.
1988 - David Scarboro, British actor.
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer.
2002 - Ruth Handler, American, creator of the Barbie doll and Mattel company co-founder.

On This Day: April 26

Matthew — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:03:03 GMT

On This Day:
April 26
This is usually the 116th day of the year, with 249 days remaining.

Holidays
Feast day of St. Cletus, St. Riquier, St. Stephen of Perm, St. Peter of Braga, St. Franca of Piacenza, and St. Paschasius Radbertus.
Tanzania: Union Day.
United States: Confederate Memorial Day in southern U.S. (esp. Florida, Georgia).

Events
1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.
1607 - A group of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio, WEW in St. Louis, Missouri.
1937 - During the Spanish Civil War, German planes attacked the sleeping town of Guernica in Northern Spain. This intervention by Nazi Germany in the Spanish Civil War has been described as practice for World War II.
1941 - The first organ was played at a baseball stadium, in Chicago.
1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania. Pemba also became part of Tanzania.
1968 - The largest underground nuclear device ever to be tested in the U.S. was exploded in Nevada.
1986 - The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred when an explosion and fire at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union killed 32 people and sent radioactivity into the atmosphere.
1992 - Worshippers celebrated Russian Orthodox Easter for the first time in 74 years in Moscow.
1994 - More than 22 million South Africans turned out to cast ballots in the country`s first multiracial parliamentary elections, choosing anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela to head a new coalition government.
2000 - Vermont governor Howard Dean signed the nation`s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
2005 - Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troops from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation.

Births
121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.
1785 - John Audubon, American ornithologist, naturalist, artist.
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect, designer of Central Park in New York City, Yosemite National Park, and others.
1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher.
1900 - Charles Richter, American seismologist who helped develop the Richter scale.
1936 - Carol Burnett, American Emmy Award-winning entertainer, comedienne.

Deaths
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, by federal troops near Bowling Green, Virginia.
1984 - Count Basie (born William Basie), American musician and composer.
1986 - Broderick Crawford, American actor.
1989 - Lucille Ball, American comedienne and actress.

April 25

Matthew — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:33:23 GMT

On This Day:
April 25
This is usually the 115th day of the year, with 250 days remaining.

Holidays
Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga: ANZAC Day (ANZAC was (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps).
Feast day of St. Mark the Evangelist, St. Heribald, and St. Anianus of Alexandria.
Italy: Liberation Day (1945).
Portugal: Revolution Day / Liberty Day (1974).
Egypt: Sinai Day (1982).
Swaziland: National Flag Day.

Events
1792 - The guillotine was first used, in Paris.
1859 - Ground was broken at Port Said, Egypt, for the Suez Canal.
1898 - The United States declared war on Spain.
1901 - New York became the first state to require automobile license plates; the fee was one dollar.
1915 - In World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in Turkey.
1928 - The first seeing eye dog, Buddy, was presented to Morris S. Frank.
1945 - Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.
1953 - The magazine "Nature" published an article by biologists Francis Crick and James Watson, describing the "double helix" of DNA.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and President Dwight Eisenhower, linking the Atlantic Ocean with ports on the Great Lakes.
1967 - The first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. was signed by the Colorado governor.
1990 - The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery placed the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-term space-based observatory, into a low orbit around Earth.
2003 - Georgia lawmakers voted to remove the Dixie cross from the state`s flag.
2005 - Bulgaria and Romania gain entrance into the European Union.
2005 - One hundred seven die in the Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.

Births
1214 - Louis IX, king of France (1226-1270).
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Puritan leader in the English Civil War.
1840 - Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer.
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of radio.
1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American war correspondent, newsman.
1918 - Ella Fitzgerald, American Grammy Award-winning jazz singer.
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor.
1964 - Hank Azaria, American actor, comedian, and voice artist.
1969 - Renee Zellweger, American film actress.
1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver.

Deaths
1995 - Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath), American actress, dancer, and singer.
2005 - Swami Ranganathananda (born Shankaran Kutty), Indian monk.

On This Day: April 24

Matthew — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:52:27 GMT

On This Day:
April 24
This is usually the 114th day of the year, with 251 days remaining.

Holidays
Feast day of St. Mellitus, St. Egbert, St. Wilfrid, St. Ives, St. Fidelis, St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, and St. William Firmatus.
Armenia: Armenian Martyrs Day.

Events
1558 - Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis II.
1704 - The first regularly issued American newspaper, "the Boston News Letter," started publication.
1792 - The national anthem of France, "La Marseillaise," was composed by Captain Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1800 - The Library of Congress was established. President John Adams approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for the use of congress."
1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain to Jacob Ebert of Cadiz, Ohio and George Dulty of Wheeling, West Virginia .
1898 - Spain declared war on the United States, rejecting the U.S. ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1915 - The Ottoman Turkish Empire began a mass deportation of Armenians during World War I.
1916 - The Irish Republican Brotherhood or Sinn Fein, Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launched the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule.
1953 - Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
1962 - MIT executed the first satellite relay of a TV signal.
1970 - China launched its first satellite.
1980 - An ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ended with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued.
1981 - The IBM Personal Computer was introduced.
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.

Births
1766 - Robert Bailey Thomas, American founder and editor of "The Farmer`s Almanac."
1904 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch-born American abstract impressionist painter.
1905 - Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet laureate of U.S.
1911 - Jack E. Leonard (Leonard Lebitsky), American comedian, actor.
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American award-winning vocalist, actress, director.

Deaths
2004 - Estee Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur.

On This Day: April 23

Matthew — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:58:41 GMT

On This Day: April 23

This is usually the 113th day of the year, with 252 days remaining.

Holidays
Feast day of St. George, St. Gerard of Toul, St. Ibar, St. Adalbert of Prague, and Saints Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus.
Bermuda: Peppercorn Day.
England: St. George`s Day.
Germany: Biertag.
Turkey: National Sovereignty and Children`s Day.

Events
1348 - English King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter, the first order of knighthood.
1635 - The Boston Latin School opened -- America`s oldest public school.
1789 - President-elect George Washington and his wife moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York.
1896 - The Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City, inaugurating the first movie theater at Koster and Bials Music Hall.
1968 - The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy; a sentence later reduced to life imprisonment.
1988 - A federal ban on smoking during domestic airline flights of two hours or less went into effect.
1994 - Physicists at the Department of Energy`s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory found evidence of the top quark.

Births
1564 - William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet (generally accepted date).
1791 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States of America (1857-1861).
1813 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician.
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist who developed quantum theory.
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-born American musician, pianist, composer.
1928 - Shirley Temple Black, American child actress, U.S. United Nations diplomat and Chief of Protocol.
1932 - Halston (Roy Halston Frowick), American fashion designer.

Deaths
1616 - William Shakespeare, English actor, poet, and playwright.