Leonard Bernstein 1918, George C. Wallace 1919, Sean Connery 1930
Regis Philbin 1931, Tom Skerritt 1933, Gene Simmons 1949 - Musician
1825 - Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
1939 - The movie "Wizard of Oz" opened around the United States.
1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.
1949 - NBC Radio debuted "Father Knows Best." The show went to TV in 1954.
1950 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to avert a strike.
1998 - A survey released said that 1/3 of Americans use the Internet.
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