Madame Curie 1867, Dean Jagger 1903, Billy Graham 1918
Al Hirt 1922, Johnny Rivers 1942, Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) 1943
1811 - The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook.
1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.
1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.
1963 - The comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" premiered in Hollywood.
1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuted in television commercials.
1967 - The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferments.
1989 - David Dinkins was elected and become New York City's first African-American mayor.
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