Jimmy Durante 1893, Lon Chaney, Jr. 1905, Robert Wagner 1930 - Actor ("Hart to Hart")
Roberta Flack 1939 - Singer, Mark Spitz 1950 - Olympic gold-medal swimmer, Laura Dern 1967 - Actress
1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.
1863 - In New York City, two of the world’s most famous midgets, General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were married.
1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.
1897 - "The New York Times" began printing "All the news that's fit to print" on their front page.
1925 - The first waterless gas storage tank was placed in service in Michigan City, IN.
1933 - The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.
1949 - "Death of a Salesman" opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.
1992 - Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black American contestant.
2005 - North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future saying that it needed the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
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