Miguel de Cervantes 1547, Horatio Nelson (England) 1758, Gene Autry 1907
László Bíró 1899 - Inventor of the modern ballpoint pen, Jerry Lee Lewis 1935 - Musician, Larry Linville 1939
Madeline Kahn 1942, Lech Walesa 1943, Andrew "Dice" Clay 1958
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy" premiered on ABC-TV.
1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA.
1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV.
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
1963 - "My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV.
1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.
1983 - "A Chorus Line" with performance number 3,389 became the longest running show on Broadway.
2008 - The Dow Industrial Average lost 777 points. It was the largest one-day decline to date. The drop came after the U.S. House of Representatives had voted down a $700 billion bank bailout plan.
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