Menachem Begin (Israel) 1913, Shimon Peres 1923 - Israeli politician, Fess Parker 1925
Robert Culp 1930, Frank Gifford 1930 - Football player, Kathie Lee Gifford 1953 - Television host ("Today")
James Cameron 1954 - Director ("Titanic"), Madonna Louise Ciccone 1958 - Timothy Hutton 1960
1812 - Detroit fell to Indian and British troops in the War of 1812.
1829 - The "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston, MA. They had come to the Western world to be exhibited. They were 18 years old and joined at the waist.
1923 - Carnegie Steel Corporation put into place the eight-hour workday for its employees.
1937 - Harvard University became the first school to have graduate courses in traffic engineering and administration.
1954 - Sports Illustrated was published for the first time. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold before the first issue came off of the presses.
1954 - Jack Paar replaced Walter Cronkite as host of "The Morning Show" on CBS-TV.
1984 - The U.S. Jaycees voted to admit women to full membership in the organization.
1995 - Voters in Bermuda rejected independence from Great Britain.
1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by the lower house of parliament.
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