Jesse James 1847, Arthur Charles Nielsen 1897, Darryl F. Zanuck 1902, Bob Newhart 1929 - Actor, comedian (The Bob Newhart Show)
William Devane 1939 - Actor, Raquel Welch 1940 - Actress, Al Stewart (Alastair Ian "Al" Stewart) 1945 - Singer
Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946, Cathy Lee Guisewaite 1950 - Cartoonist ("Cathy"), Michael Keaton 1951 - Actor ("Batman")
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
1906 - Bradbury Robinson executed the first legal forward pass in football. Robinson threw the ball to Jack Schneider of St. Louis University in a game against Carroll College.
1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.
1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was arrested. D'Aquino was suspected of being the wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose". She served six years and was later pardoned by U.S. President Ford.
1960 - Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY, won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1961 - The U.S. government made airline hijacking a federal offense.
1989 - Deborah Norville became the news anchor of the "Today" show.
1992 - A General Motors Corporation strike ended with a new agreement being approved. Nearly 43,000 workers were on strike.
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