Soren Kierkegaard 1813, Karl Marx 1818 - Socialist writer ("Das Kapital", "The Communist Manifesto"), founder of communism, Rex Harrison 1908
Ann B. Davis (Ann Bradford Davis) 1926 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch"), Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) 1942 - Country singer, Annette Bening 1959 - Actress
1798 - U.S. Secretary of War William McHenry ordered that the USS Constitution be made ready for sea. The frigate was launched on October 21, 1797, but had never been put to sea.
1862 - The Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day.
1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
1892 - The U.S. Congress extended the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years. The act required Chinese in the U.S. to be registered or face deportation.
1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda began publishing.
1925 - John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1945 - A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon. A pregnant woman and five children were killed.
1955 - "Damn Yankees" opened on Broadway.
1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.
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