Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - Comedian, actress
- 1788 - Almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were destroyed.
- 1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.
- 1857 - An earthquake hit Tokyo killing about 107,000.
- 1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
- 1963 - Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, CA, closed.
- 1965 - More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.
- 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not require one year of residency for voting eligibility.
- 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.
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