Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - Poet, John Steinbeck 1902 - Writer ("The Grapes of Wrath"), Irwin Shaw (Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff) 1913 - Novelist ("The Young Lions")
Elizabeth Taylor 1932 - Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), Howard Hesseman 1940 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Josh Groban 1981 - Singer
1827 - New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1867 - Dr. William G. Bonwill invented the dental mallet.
1883 - Oscar Hammerstein patented the first cigar-rolling machine.
1933 - The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire.
1974 - "People" magazine was first issued by Time-Life (later known as Time-Warner).
1982 - Wayne B. Williams was convicted of murdering two of the 28 black children and young adults whose bodies were found in Atlanta, GA, over a two-year period.
1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced live on television that "Kuwait is liberated."
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