Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 - Composer, Timothy Dalton 1944 - Actor, Eddie Money 1949 - Singer
Gary Oldman 1958 - Actor, Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - Comedian, actress, Matthew Broderick 1962 - Actor ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa.
1908 - A passenger was carried in a bi-plane for the first time by Henri Farman of France.
1918 - During World War I, the Germans launched the Somme Offensive.
1963 - Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, CA, closed.
1965 - The U.S. launched Ranger 9. It was the last in a series of unmanned lunar explorations.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
1980 - On the TV show "Dallas", J.R. Ewing was shot.
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