Robert Burns 1759, W. Somerset Maugham 1874, Earnie Halwell 1918
Corazon Aquino 1933, Etta James 1938, Alicia Keys 1981 - Singer
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1858 - Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia.
1870 - G.D. Dows patented the ornamental soda fountain.
1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps.
1937 - NBC radio presented the first broadcast of "The Guiding Light." The show remained on radio until 1956 and began on CBS-TV in 1952.
1949 - The first Emmys were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1959 - In the U.S., American Airlines had the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
1971 - Charles Manson and three female members of his "family" were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder and seven counts of murder in the first degree. They were all sentenced to death for the 1969 killings. The sentences were later commuted to life sentences.
1993 - A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside the agencies headquarters in Virginia. Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani national, was later convicted of the shootings.
1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.
2011 - A revolution began in Egypt with the demonstrations that demanded the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule.
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