Molly Pitcher (Mary Hays McCauley) 1744, Wilbur Shaw 1902 - Racing driver, Yves Montand 1921 - Actor
Margaret Thatcher 1925 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Paul Simon 1941 - Musician, Marie Osmond 1959 - Singer
1812 - American forces were defeated at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. The British victory effectively ended an further U.S. invasion of Canada.
1943 - During World War II, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany.
1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.
1962 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened on Broadway.
1981 - Egyptian voters elected Vice President Hosni Mubarak as the new president one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush called for an overthrow of the Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1998 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) canceled regular season games, due to work stoppage, for first time in its 51-year history.
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