Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - Comedian, actress
- 1907 - The U.S. Marines landed in Honduras to protect American interests in the war with Nicaragua.
- 1910 - The U.S. Senate granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a yearly pension of $10,000.
- 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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