Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist, Walter Chrysler 1875 - Auto manufacturer (Chrysler Corporation), Buddy Ebsen 1908 - Actor ("The Beverly Hillbillies," "Barnaby Jones")
Sir Alec Guinness (Alec Guinness de Cuffe) 1914 - Actor ("Bridge Over River Kwai," "A Passage to India," "Star Wars"), Jack Webb (John Randolf) 1920 - Director, actor, Marvin Gaye, Jr. 1939 - Singer ("I Heard It Through The Grapevine")
1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.
1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.
1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
1963 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King began the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, AL.
1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.
1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.
1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
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