Victor Hugo 1802 - Author, Levi Strauss 1829, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman
John Harvey Kellogg 1852, Jackie Gleason 1916, Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician
1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.
1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
1933 - A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Crissy Field for the Golden Gate Bridge.
1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1998 - A Texas jury rejected an $11 million lawsuit by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey for price drop after on-air comment about mad-cow disease.
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