Stan Laurel 1890, Erich Segal 1937, Billy 'Crash' Craddock 1939 - Country singer
Roberto Duran 1951 - Boxer, Phil Mickelson 1970 - Golf player, Tupac Shakur 1971 - Rapper
0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
1858 - In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
1884 - At Coney Island, in Brooklyn, NY, the first roller coaster in America opened.
1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1952 - "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS-TV.
1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union while in Paris, traveling with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet.
1963 - 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days. She was the first female space traveler.
1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.
1996 - Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.
2000 - U.S. federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation's largest local phone company.
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