Born

1683 - Giuseppi Guarnieri

1869 - Frank Lloyd Wright

1916 - Francis H. Crick

1917 - Byron "Whizzer" White

1918 - Robert Preston

1921 - Alexis Smith

1925 - Barbara Pierce Bush (Female)

1926 - Leroy Neiman

1926 - Jerry Stiller (Jewish)

1926 - Allen Ginsberg

1933 - Joan Rivers (Female)

1940 - Nancy Sinatra

1944 - Boz Scaggs

Died

632 - Mohammed died in Medina.

1809 - Thomas Paine

1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the U.S. (Presidents)

1876 - George Sand (Female)

1982 - Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (Black)(Sports)

1991 - Claudio Arrau

2006 - Henry Berry Otway Smithers

Events

1783 - Mt. Skapter erupted killing one-fifth the population of Iceland. The eruption lasted for 8 months, expelled 4.5 cubic miles of lava, causing a famine & the death of nearly 10,000 people.

1869 - I.W. McGaffe patented the suction type vacuum cleaner in Chicago.

1939 - George VI became the 1st British monarch to visit the U.S.

1940 - Discovery of Neptunium, the 93rd element, was announced.

1948 - John Rudder became the 1st black commissioned officer in the U.S. Marines. (Black)

1959 - The U.S. mail was sent from the submarine USS Barbero to Jacksonville, Florida via a Regulus missile.

1966 - M.J. Smith Jr. became the 1st black graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. (Black)

1967 - USS Liberty attacked by Israeli jets.

1979 - S.I. Moritz became the 1st female to command a naval ship on regular patrol. (Female)

1991 - A crowded passenger train, the Karachi-Lahore-Islamabad express, crashed into a freight train parked at the station in Ghotki, 400 miles north of Karachi, killing at least 100 people.