Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader , David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of the Navarone"), William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine"), Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut
Harry Belafonte 1927 - Singer, actor, Roger Daltry 1944 - Musician (The Who)
The Who Merchandise, Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days")
1562 - In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. The event started the First War of Religion.
1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1790 - The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S. census.
1811 - Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali massacred the leaders of the Mameluke dynasty.
1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.
1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2003 - In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22 different organizations around the government became part of the Department of Homeland Security. This completed the largest government reorganization since the beginning of the Cold War.
2003 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad. He was the suspected mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
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