Erich Fromm 1900 - German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher, Joan Crawford 1905 - Actress (Mildred Pierce, The Unknown) Born: Lucille Fay LeSueur, Wernher Von Braun 1912 - Rocket scientist, generally regarded as the father of the United States space program
(Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun)
Roger Gilbert Bannister 1929 - Neurologist, British athlete, first man to run the mile in less than four minutes, Craig Breedlove 1937 - First to reach 400 mi/h, 500 mi/h and 600 mi/h using turbojet-powered vehicles, Keri Russell 1976 - Actress ("Felicity")
1775 - American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me liberty, or give me death!"
1839 - The first recorded printed use of "OK" [oll korrect] occurred in Boston's Morning Post.
1857 - Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.
1901 - Dame Nellie Melba, revealed the secret of her now famous toast.
1912 - The Dixie Cup was invented.
1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
1933 - The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.
1942 - During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.
1965 - America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.
1972 - Evel Knievel broke 93 bones after successfully jumping 35 cars.
1983 - U.S. President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and "Star Wars."
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