Born

1802 - Educator Mark Hopkins

1902 - Charles Lindbergh

1913 - Rosa Lee Parks (Black) (Female)

1915 - Songwriter Ray Evans (wrote the lyrics to Mona Lisa)

1918 - Ida Lupino

1921 - Betty(e) (Golstein) Friedan (Female) (Jewish)

1945 - David Brenner

1947 - Dan Quayle

1948 - Alice Cooper

Died

1814 - Adolphe Sax

1996 - Audrey Meadows

2005 - Actor Ossie Davis (Black)

2006 - Betty(e) (Golstein) Friedan (Female) (Jewish)

Events

1789 - Electoral College named Washington President of the U.S. (Presients)

1941 - USO was founded.

1945 - Yalta conference began.

1948 - Sri Lanka gained independence.(Independence)

1974 - Patricia Hearst was kidnapped.

1976 - Earthquake in Guatemala measured 7.5 on the Richter scale; 23,000 died.

2005 - Alberto R. Gonzales sworn in as the first Latino Attorney General of the United States (Latino)