Milton S. Hershey 1857, John Pershing 1860, Claudette Colbert 1905
Barbara Bain 1934, Richard Kiel 1939, David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1941
Bela Karolyi 1942, Jacqueline Bisset 1944, Peter Cetera (Chicago) 1944
1759 - The French were defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War.
1789 - The United States Government took out its first loan.
1898 - Hannibal Williston Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film, which is used to make movies.
1922 - In El Azizia, Libya, the highest shade temperature was recorded at 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became the president of China.
1948 - Republican Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate and became the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed.
1960 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned payola.
1971 - In New York, National Guardsmen stormed the Attica Correctional Facility and put an end to the four-day revolt. A total of 43 people were killed in the final assault. A committee was organized to investigate the riot on September 30, 1971.
1981 - U.S. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig said the U.S. had physical evidence that Russia and its allies used poisonous biological weapons in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
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