Fiorello La Guardia 1882, Perez Prado 1918, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918
Rita Moreno 1931, J. Frank Wilson 1941, Teri Garr 1949
1769 - Edward Beran of London patented venetian blinds.
1792 - France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January.
1816 - Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th American state.
1872 - Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America's first black governor when he took office as acting governor of Louisiana.
1930 - The Bank of the United States in New York failed.
1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor.
1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries.
1961 - The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon.
1994 - Thousands of Russian troops, armored columns and jets entered Chechnya. The move by Moscow was an effort to restore control the breakaway republic.
1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases."
1998 - The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.
2001 - Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches.
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