Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers, Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn")
Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer, Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien) 1939 - Singer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) 1947 - Basketball player
1818 - The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile.
1922 - Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record.
1943 - In Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman accidently discovered the the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of lysergic acid.
1962 - Walter Cronkite began anchoring "The CBS Evening News".
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon. It was the fifth manned moon landing.
1972 - Two giants pandas arrived in the U.S. from China.
1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former DEMOCRAT lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.
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