Claire Booth Luce 1903,Chuck Norris 1940 - Actor ("Walker, Texas Ranger"), Dean Torrence 1940 - Singer (Jan & Dean)
Sharon Stone 1958 - Actress, Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast, Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol", Carrie Underwood Merchandise
0241 BC - The Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.
0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.
1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.
1848 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.
1933 - Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
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