Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475, Cyrano De Bergerac 1619, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806
Lou Costello 1906, Ed McMahon 1923, Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman
Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927, Marion Barry 1936, Shaquille O'Neal 1972 - Basketball player
1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.
1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.
1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs.
1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
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