Helen Keller 1880, Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan 1927, H. Ross Perot 1930
Julia Duffy 1951, Tobey Maguire 1975
1693 - "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
1871 - The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1931 - Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked the breakthrough in helicopter technology.
1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted 38 days.
1973 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" that was kept by the Nixon White House.
1985 - Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System.
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