Franz Liszt 1811, Sarah Bernhardt 1844, Curly Howard 1903
Annette Funicello 1942, Catherine Deneuve 1943, Jeff Goldblum 1952
1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet.
1907 - The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1979 - The ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Riza Pahlavi was allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment.
1998 - Pakistan's carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor.
1999 - China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties.
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