Chico Marx 1887, Louis L'Amour 1908 - Author, Karl Malden 1913 - Actor
William Shatner 1931 - Actor ("Star Trek" television series and movies), M. Emmett Walsh 1935 - Actor, Glen Campbell 1936
James Patterson 1947 - Author, Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 - Composer, Reese Witherspoon 1976 - Actress ("Legally Blonde")
1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.
1841 - Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch.
1873 - Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.
1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.
1906 - France lost the first ever rugby game ever played against Britain.
1907 - In Paris, it was reported that male cab drivers dressed as women to attract riders.
1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.
1941 - The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began operations.
1954 - The first shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan.
1987 - A barge loaded with 32,000 tons of refuse left Islip, NY, to find a place to unload. After being refused by several states and three countries space was found back in Islip.
1989 - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee reported the class gap was widening.
1990 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Captain Hazelwood not guilty in the Valdez oil spill.
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