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.