Billy Joel 1949 - Musician
- 1429 - Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans.
- 1671 - Thomas "Captain" Blood stole the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
- 1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette."
- 1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.
- 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
- 1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. 35 motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
- 1994 - Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa's first black president.
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