Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 - Composer, Timothy Dalton 1944 - Actor , Eddie Money 1949 - Singer
Gary Oldman 1958 - Actor, Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - Comedian, actress , Matthew Broderick 1962 - Actor ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
1788 - Almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were destroyed.
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa.
1910 - The U.S. Senate granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a yearly pension of $10,000.
1965 - More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
1980 - On the TV show "Dallas", J.R. Ewing was shot.
1982 - The United States, U.K. and other Western countries condemned the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
1994 - Dudley Moore was arrested for hitting his girlfriend.
1994 - Wayne Gretzky tied Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals.
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