Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock), Isoroku Yamamoto 1884, Arthur Murray (Moses Teichman) 1895 - Dancer
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) 1913 - Blues singer, guitarist ("Closet to You", "Honey Bee"), Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psyco" series), Hugh Masekela 1939 - Musician, band leader
Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Turner and Hooch", "Stir Crazy", "Poltergeist"), Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Movie: "U.S. Marshals"), Barry Pepper 1970 - Actor
1581 - Francis Drake completed the circumnavigation of the world.
1818 - The U.S. flag was declared to have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.
1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia.
1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.
1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.
1974 - Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's major league baseball home-run record with 714.
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