Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine 1738 - Physician, he did not invent the guillotine even though he did propose the use of a mechanical device to carry out death sentences in France, Jim Thorpe 1888 - Olympic athlete, baseball and basketball player
Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond, Gladys Knight 1944 - Singer, Rudolph Giuliani 1944 - Mayor of New York City
John Fogerty 1945 - Musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Larry Gatlin 1948 - Musician (Gatlin Brothers), Elisabeth Hasselbeck 1977 - Television host ("The View")
1533 - England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1805 - Napoleon was crowned in Milan, Italy.
1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco.
1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India."
1999 - In Milan, Italy, Leonardo de Vinci's "The Last Supper" was put back on display after more than 20 years of restoration work.
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