Marquise de Pompadour 1721, Charles Goodyear 1800, Andrew Johnson 1808
William Gladstone 1809, Jon Voight 1938 - Actor, Mary Tyler Moore 1938 - Actress
1170 - St. Thomas à Becket, the 40th archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in his own cathedral by four knights acting on Henry II's orders.
1812 - The USS Constitution won a battle with the British ship HMS Java about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil. Before Commodore William Bainbridge ordered the sinking of the Java he had her wheel removed to replace the one the Constitution had lost during the battle.
1845 - U.S. President James Polk and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.
1851 - The first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston, MA.
1934 - Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1937 - Babe Ruth returned to baseball as the new manager of the Class D, De Land Reds of the Florida State League. Ruth had retired from baseball in 1935.
1952 - The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by Sonotone Corporation.
1972 - Following 36 years of publication, the last weekly issue of "LIFE" magazine hit the newsstands. The magazine later became a monthly publication.
1997 - Hong Kong began killing 1.25 million chickens, the entire population, for fear of the spread of 'bird flu'.
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