Harry Houdini 1874 - Magician, escape artist, Arthur Murray 1895 - Dance instructor, businessman, Norman Fell (Norman Noah Feld) 1924 - Actor
Steve McQueen 1930 - Actor , R. Lee Ermey 1944 - Actor, Peyton Manning 1976 - Football player
1720 - In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis.
1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.
1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
1906 - In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Istmian Railroad opened as a rival to the Panama Canal.
1920 - The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at Morehead City, NC.
1955 - The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service.
1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.
1999 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.
1999 - The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France was an inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught on fire. At least 30 people were killed.
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