Charles Henry Dow 1851 - Journalist, economist, John Philip Sousa 1854 - American commander, composer, conductor, James Naismith 1861 - Inventor of basketball in 1891
Sally Field 1946 - Actress ("Smokey and the Bandit"), Glenn Frey 1948 - Musician, singer (Eagles), Pat Tillman 1976 - Soldier, football player
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
1999 - Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state.
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