Born today:
1975 Mandy Barnett - country singer
1967 Mira Sorvino - actress
1967 Moon Unit Zappa - actress
1964 Janeane Garofalo - comedienne, actress
1954 Steve Largent - Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver, Us Senator (Oklahoma)
1947 Jeffrey Jones - actor
1946 Helen Shapiro - singer, actress
1941 Charley Taylor - football player
1938 Ben E. King - singer
1935 Bruce Crampton - golfer
1934 Brigitte Bardot - actress
1923 William Windom - actor
1919 Tom Harmon - football player, sportscaster
1916 Peter Finch - actor (Oscar® winner, 1976)
1909 Al Capp - Li'l Abner cartoonist
1905 Max Schmeling - heavyweight boxing champ
1902 Ed Sullivan - TV host, newspaper columnist
1901 William S. Paley - founded CBS network
1856 Kate Smith-Wiggin - author
Things that happened on this day in history...
In the headlines today:
2004 A redesigned US $50 bill, incorporating a host of anti-counterfeiting measures, goes into circulation.
1990 The exiled Kuwaiti emir visits US president George Bush, and complains of numerous hostilities by Iraqi forces.
1989 Ex-Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos dies in Hawaii at age 72.
1960 Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
1955 The first color TV broadcast of a World Series baseball game is made by NBC.
1950 Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1924 A pair of US Army airplanes land in Seattle, Washington, after an historic, 175-day, round-the-world flight.
1920 Eight Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted for taking part in the 'Black Sox' gambling scandal, where Chicago intentionally lost to Cincinnati during the 1919 World Series.
1892 The first night football game is played.
1787 Congress votes to send the newly completed US Constitution to the individual states for approval.
1781 US troops, with help from French warships, begin the battle of Yorktown Heights, VA, during the American Revolution.
1542 Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California.
1066 William the Conqueror and the Normans invade England.
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