Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - Poet, Hugo (Lafayette) Black 1886 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, John Steinbeck 1902 - Writer ("The Grapes of Wrath")
Elizabeth Taylor 1932 - Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), Howard Hesseman 1940 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Josh Groban 1981 - Singer
1827 - New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1896 - The "Charlotte Observer" published a picture of an X-ray photograph made by Dr. H.L. Smith. The photograph showed a perfect picture of all the bones of a hand and a bullet that Smith had placed between the third and fourth fingers in the palm.
1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.
1933 - The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire.
1972 - The Shanghai Communique was issued by U.S. President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai.
1974 - "People" magazine was first issued by Time-Life (later known as Time-Warner).
1981 - Chrysler Corporation was granted an additional $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had posted a loss of $1.7 billion in 1980.
1982 - Wayne B. Williams was convicted of murdering two of the 28 black children and young adults whose bodies were found in Atlanta, GA, over a two-year period.
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