Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader, David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of the Navarone"), William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine")
Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut, Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days"), Timothy Daly 1956 - Actor ("Diner", "Wings", "The Fugitive")
1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1784 - In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school.
1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.
1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.
1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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