National Bike To Work Day. See www.bikeleague.org
Birth anniversary of oral historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel (1912-2008).
Birth anniversaries of Henry Fonda (1905-82), Woody Herman (1913-87), Liberace (1919-87)
Happy Birthday! Pierce Brosnan, Olga Korbut, Gabriela Sabatini
1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote.
1879 - The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England set up the Afghan state.
1888 - The first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner.
1946 - Jack Mullin showed the world the first magnetic tape recorder.
1960 - Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.
1963 - After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth, ending Project Mercury.
1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.
1971 - U.S. postage for a one-ounce first class stamp was increased from 6 to 8 cents.
1985 - Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.
1988 - A report released by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine was addictive in similar was as heroin and cocaine.
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