1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changed course
1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
1856 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca New York) opens
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1929 - Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress
1931 - 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York
1942 - US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
1942 - Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1950 - Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
1950 - William H Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA
1955 - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
1958 - Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1960 - 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
1963 - Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 - JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1965 - Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1988 - Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1991 - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her

1882 - 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
1904 - New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
1922 - Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1923 - Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1927 - Yankee Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1933 - New York Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1936 - 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1940 - Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1947 - Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankee General Manager after final game of World Series
1950 - New York Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 - Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2
1950 - Yankees win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
1952 - New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
1952 - Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
1964 - New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
1975 - Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith
1978 - Los Angeles Dodgers win the pennant
1981 - In 1st Eastern Division championship Yankees beat Brewers 5-3
1984 - Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1988 - Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager
1989 - Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1995 - Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees

1916 - 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech & Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee
1979 - Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
1984 - Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader

1985 - Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters

1956 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1957 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
1962 - 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1965 - 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447
1965 - Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1979 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic

1961 - 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
1972 - 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1992 - Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1995 - Boston's Fleet Center opens, New York Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4

1988 - Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson

1991 - Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history

1922 - 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1926 - Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1952 - 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1957 - "American Bandstand" premieres
1957 - KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, Oregon (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - "Route 66" premieres
1967 - Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1969 - WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, Michigan (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Disney World opens in Orlando
1975 - US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
1977 - Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1982 - "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 5000+ performances
1985 - KHQ-AM in Spokane Washington's final transmission
1988 - WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio)
1989 - Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match
1991 - Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics

1816 - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1826 - Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations

1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1871 - 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
1963 - Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190

1958 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 - Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1985 - 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB

1989 - Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1989 - Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander

1941 - German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1942 - 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 - Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Netherlands)
1944 - Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
1944 - Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin
1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums
1944 - Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp

1864 - Battle of Darbytown Road, Virginia
1864 - Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett

1777 - Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Hts
1780 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, South Carolina

1975 - US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
1991 - Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics

1573 - William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
1577 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/archbishop
1698 - Henri Madin, composer
1728 - Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1734 - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana)
1746 - William Billings, Boston Massachusetts, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1748 - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18)
1758 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1774 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1798 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1801 - Adolf Muller, composer
1802 - Bernhard Molique, composer
1802 - Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer
1817 - Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 - Richard Heron Anderson, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1821 - William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
1826 - William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
1835 - Felix Draeseke, composer
1841 - Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18)
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)
1854 - Christiaan R de Wet, South Africa, Boer General (Nicholsonsnek)
1866 - Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
1868 - Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
1870 - Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer
1879 - Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1879 - Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 - Jaime Pahissa, composer
1885 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1886 - Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary (Chateaubriand)
1887 - A C "Jack" Russell, cricketer (prolific England batsman post-WW I)
1887 - Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls New York, actor (Ken Murray Show)
1888 - Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party
1889 - Clarence Muse, Balt MD, actor (Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion)
1894 - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer
1896 - Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests)
1896 - Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam
1898 - Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29)
1901 - Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
1901 - Ralph Rainger, composer
1901 - Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos
1902 - Willemina J H "Mascha" ter Weene, dancer/ballerina
1903 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
1904 - Chuck Klein, Indianapolis Indiana, Philadelphia Phillies (43 HRs in 1929)
1905 - Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy's Gang)
1906 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
1907 - Tutta Rolf, Norway, actress (Whalers)
1908 - Richard Caldicot, London England, actor (Horse's Mouth)
1909 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist
1911 - Joe Jones, Chicago Illinois, drummer
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, Akron Ohio, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1913 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Parool, Kinks)
1914 - Alfred Drake, [Capurro], Brooklyn New York, singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate)
1914 - Sarah Churchill, London, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding)
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS]
1915 - Roman Padlewski, composer
1916 - Walt W Rostow, New York City, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth)
1917 - Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
1917 - June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)
1918 - Guido Aristarco, film critic
1919 - Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
1919 - George Duby, historian
1920 - Georg Leber, German politician (SPD)
1921 - John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
1922 - Martha Stewart, Bardwell Kentucky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1922 - Reina Prinsen Geerligs, [Leentje Vandendriesch], Dutch antifascist
1926 - Diana Lynn, LA California, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go)
1926 - Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 - Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 - Al Martino, Philadelphia, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather)
1927 - Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatrist)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
1932 - Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond
1933 - Paul B Price, Cataret New Jersey, actor (Busting Loose)
1934 - [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1934 - Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer
1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member
1934 - Willie Naulls, NBA star (NY Knicks)
1935 - Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler's List)
1936 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut
1937 - Col Guest, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1963, scored 11 took 0-59)
1938 - Robert Drivas, Chi, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man) [or 11/21]
1939 - Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1940 - Bruce F Vento, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977- )
1940 - Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1940 - Richard H Stallings, (Rep-D-ID, 1985- )
1941 - Martin Murray, London England, rocker (Honeycombs)
1941 - Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1943 - Oliver L North, US colonel (Irangate)
1945 - Kevin Godley, Manchester England, rock vocalist (10cc)
1949 - Catherine Duggan, LPGA golfer
1949 - Dave Hope, rock bassist (Kansas)
1949 - Kieran Kane, Queens New York, singer (O'Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too)
1950 - Maartje van Weegen, [Walet], Dutch TV hostess
1951 - Carmen R "Tata" Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
1952 - Graham Yallop, cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6)
1952 - Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - Martyn Harris, journalist
1953 - Christopher Norris, New York City, actress (Summer of '42, Eat My Dust)
1953 - Tico Torres, rock drummer (Bon Jovi-Always)
1954 - Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler (AAA/NJPW, Black Cat)
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist
1956 - James Van Patten, Brooklyn New York, actor (Bo-Chisholms)
1956 - Julio Pezua, jockey
1957 - Jayne Torvill, England, ice skater (Torvill & Dean, Oly-gold-84)
1957 - Judy Sams, Toronto Ontario, golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic-38th)
1958 - Kim Morris, San Diego California, playmate (Mar, 1986)
1959 - Penny Graeber, Sydney Australia, golfer (1990 6th Vic Open)
1961 - Judy Landers, Philadelphia, actress (Vega$, BJ & the Bear, Madame's Place)
1964 - Rich Delucia, Reading Pennsylvania, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Sam Brown, English singer/songwriter (Stop!)
1964 - Stuart Hendley, Houston Texas, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Manitoba Open)
1965 - Juul Ellerman, soccer player (PSV, FC Twente)
1966 - Trent Brown, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 - Mariana Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1968 - Erick Anderson, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Randy Bartz, Roseville Minnesota, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Toni Braxton, singer (You Mean the World to Me)
1969 - Brent Dorman, Ocala Florida, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 - Martin Haywood, cricketer (NSW opening batsman)
1970 - Daniel Collins, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Dwayne Provo, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1970 - Harold Ellis, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Le'Shai Maston, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Vaughn Hebron, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 - Dexter Dawson, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Johnnie Morton, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Paul Hannam, Vancouver BC, 470 yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 - John Hyden, Tustin California, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Rahsaan Giddings, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Gerald McBurrows, safety (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Priest Holmes, running back (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Alexander Polinsky, SF California, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge)
1974 - Benjamin Oberman, Denver Colorado, pairs skater (& Naomi Grabow)
1974 - Shannon MacMillan, Syosset New York, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1975 - Billy Walsh, Summit New Jersey, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 - Clayton Miller, Toronto Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)