Andre Michelin 1853, Ethel Merman 1909, Marilyn Horne 1934
A.J. Foyt 1935, Ronnie Milsap 1943, John Carpenter 1948
1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.
1896 - The first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, IA.
1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.
1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington,DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
1998 - Three federal judges secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with Clinton.
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