John Paul Jones 1747 - First United States' well known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War, Harold Vanderbilt 1884 - American railroad executive, Nancy Reagan (Anne Frances Robbins) 1921 - Wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, actress
Pat Paulsen (Patrick Layton "Pat" Paulsen) 1927 - Comedian, satirist, Janet Leigh 1927 - Actress, Ned Beatty 1937 - Actor
Sylvester Stallone 1946 - Actor ("Rocky" series of movies), George W. Bush (U.S.) 1946 - 43rd President of the United States, Shelly Hack 1952 - Actress, model
1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA, and deported back to England.
1854 - In Jackson, MI, the Republican Party held its first convention.
1858 - Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his anti-rabies vaccine. The child used in the test later became the director of the Pasteur Institute.
1917 - During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
1919 - A British dirigible landed in New York at Roosevelt Field. It completed the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1923 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
1942 - Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. She was the first black athlete to win the event.
1967 - The Biafran War erupted. The war lasted two-and-a-half years. About 600,000 people died.
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