Captain James Cook 1728 - British explorer, navigator, Marie Sklodowska-Curie 1867 - Scientist, Al Hirt 1922 - Trumpeter, bandleader
Johnny Rivers 1942 - Singer, David Petraeus 1952 - U.S. Army General, Kim Yun-jin (Yunjin Kim) 1973 - Actress ("Lost")
1811 - The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook.
1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.
1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.
1963 - The comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" premiered in Hollywood.
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