Grant Wood 1892, Chuck Yeager 1923 - United States Air Force General, test pilot, Kim (Marilyn) Novak 1933 - Actress
Carol Lynley (Jones) 1942 - Actress, Jerry Springer 1944 - Talk show host, 56th Mayor of Cincinnati, Peter Tork 1944 - Actor, musician (The Monkees)
1542 - Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII.
1880 - Thomas Edison observed what became known as the Edison Effect for the first time.
1900 - The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favor of Germany and the U.S.
1920 - The National Negro Baseball League was organized.
1965 - Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.
1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 1297.92 after it topped the 1300 mark earlier in the trading session.
1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune up. The tune up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.
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