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- 1758 - George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
- 1799 - William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
- 1824 - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
- 1847 - Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
- 1847 - Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City
- 1866 - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
- 1877 - 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
- 1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
- 1910 - Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
- 1919 - Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
- 1929 - President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
- 1934 - 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York
- 1946 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
- 1952 - President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
- 1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1959 - VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
- 1964 - Race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
- 1967 - Race riots in Cambridge, Maryland
- 1967 - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
- 1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
- 1979 - President Carter names Paul Volcker, president of Federal Reserves
- 1983 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
- 1987 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
- 1989 - Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
- 1990 - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
- 1990 - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
- 1909 - Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pitts Pirates
- 1911 - Cleveland's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
- 1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
- 1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
- 1948 - 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash
- 1949 - Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
- 1956 - Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
- 1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
- 1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
- 1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets
- 1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
- 1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
- 1973 - 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, Kansas City
- 1973 - All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants)
- 1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
- 1977 - Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
- 1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
- 1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
- 1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
- 1983 - Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yankees (overturned)
- 1992 - Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
- 1993 - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
- 1993 - New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
- 1955 - Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
- 1960 - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
- 1966 - 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
- 1966 - Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
- 1967 - 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
- 1977 - 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
- 1983 - Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
- 1988 - 43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
- 1994 - 49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
- 1969 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
- 1953 - KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 - KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 - Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
- 1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
- 1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
- 1971 - WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1978 - "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City
- 1982 - KHJ (Los Angeles) & KFRC (San Francisco) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
- 1993 - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
- 1870 - 1st trans-US rail service begins
- 1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
- 1936 - 118 deg F (48 deg C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
- 1936 - 121 deg F (49 deg C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
- 1952 - 112 deg F (44 deg C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
- 1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
- 1992 - Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
- 1950 - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
- 1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth
- 1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth
- 1991 - U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
- 1963 - 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- 1993 - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
- 1941 - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
- 1941 - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
- 1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
- 1944 - 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
- 1944 - Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
- 1944 - US troops land on Tinian
- 1945 - US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
- 1861 - Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats
- 1863 - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
- 1864 - Battle of Winchester, Virginia
- 1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
- 1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
- 1986 - San Francisco Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
- 1938 - Instant coffee invented
- 1380 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
- 1686 - Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]
- 1720 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
- 1738 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
- 1759 - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
- 1796 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
- 1796 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
- 1798 - John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
- 1802 - Ira Aldridge, famous African
- 1803 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Si j'etait roi)
- 1803 - Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)
- 1815 - Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810]
- 1817 - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
- 1818 - Felix Godefroid, composer
- 1827 - Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
- 1832 - Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
- 1841 - Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
- 1842 - Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust)
- 1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)
- 1858 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
- 1862 - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
- 1864 - B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer (Lulu)
- 1864 - Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
- 1865 - Frank Wedekind, writer
- 1867 - Frederic Benson, novelist
- 1867 - Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)
- 1870 - Fred Law Olmsted Jr, architect/landscaper
- 1878 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)
- 1880 - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
- 1884 - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
- 1885 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
- 1886 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
- 1888 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's)
- 1894 - Walter Schulthess, composer
- 1896 - Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)
- 1897 - Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)
- 1897 - Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)
- 1898 - Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)
- 1898 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
- 1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man)
- 1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
- 1902 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
- 1902 - Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
- 1903 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer
- 1904 - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
- 1907 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
- 1910 - Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
- 1910 - Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
- 1913 - George H Brown, film producer
- 1913 - Johnny McAfee, Dallas Texas, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
- 1914 - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
- 1914 - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
- 1914 - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
- 1914 - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
- 1914 - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
- 1914 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
- 1915 - Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)
- 1916 - Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville New York, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
- 1916 - John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)
- 1917 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller
- 1917 - Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger
- 1917 - Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
- 1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, SF California, composer/violinist (Paganini)
- 1920 - Alexander H Cohen, New York City, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe)
- 1920 - Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-New York, 1970-74)
- 1922 - Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-Maryland, 1969-86)
- 1922 - Leo Kraft, composer
- 1924 - David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)
- 1924 - Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
- 1924 - Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
- 1924 - Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
- 1925 - Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)
- 1926 - James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)
- 1927 - James J Howard, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1965- )
- 1927 - Wilfred Josephs, composer
- 1929 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
- 1929 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
- 1929 - Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
- 1930 - Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
- 1930 - Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
- 1930 - Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair New Jersey, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
- 1932 - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
- 1933 - John Aniston, Crete, actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)
- 1934 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
- 1934 - Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
- 1934 - Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)
- 1935 - George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65)
- 1935 - Les Reed, songwriter (Heroin)
- 1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
- 1935 - Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
- 1936 - Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
- 1936 - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly Rhode Island, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
- 1937 - Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
- 1937 - Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
- 1937 - Quinlan Terry, architect
- 1938 - Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)
- 1938 - John Sparling, NZ cricket all-rounder (11 Tests 1958-64)
- 1938 - Mike Mainieri, rocker
- 1939 - Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)
- 1939 - Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
- 1939 - Walter Bellamy, New Bern North Carolina, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960)
- 1940 - Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-South Carolina, 1979-86)
- 1941 - Barbara Love, rocker
- 1942 - Chris Sarandon, West Virginia, actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)
- 1942 - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
- 1943 - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
- 1943 - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
- 1943 - Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
- 1944 - Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
- 1944 - Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
- 1946 - William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
- 1947 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer
- 1947 - Michael Coveney, drama critic
- 1947 - M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
- 1947 - Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
- 1947 - Peter Serkin, New York City, pianist (Tashi)
- 1947 - Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
- 1947 - Zaheer Abbas, cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever)
- 1949 - Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)
- 1949 - Michael Richards, Los Angeles California, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld)
- 1950 - Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)
- 1950 - Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
- 1950 - Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
- 1951 - Chris Smith, MP (Labour)
- 1951 - Lynda Carter, Phoenix Arizona, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
- 1952 - Vin Weber, (Rep-R-Minnesota, 1981- )
- 1953 - Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
- 1953 - Julian Brazier, MP
- 1953 - Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)
- 1954 - Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)
- 1955 - Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
- 1957 - Dorothy Mays, Baltimore Maryland, playmate (Jul, 1979)
- 1957 - Pam Tillis, Plant City Florida, country singer (Melancholy Child)
- 1957 - Robbie Grey, rocker
- 1958 - Mick Karn, rocker
- 1958 - Pam Tills, Country music artist
- 1959 - Brian Fogt, Dayton Ohio, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)
- 1959 - Edward Liddie, Union Georgia, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)
- 1962 - Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chicago Bears)
- 1963 - Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)
- 1963 - Kadeem Hardison, New York City, actor (Dwayne-Different World)
- 1963 - Karl Malone, Summeerfield LA, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
- 1963 - Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)
- 1964 - Barry Bonds, Riverside California, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 3X MVP)
- 1964 - Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
- 1964 - Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach California, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)
- 1965 - Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
- 1965 - Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
- 1965 - Joe Oliver, Memphis Tennessee, catcher (Cin Reds)
- 1965 - Kadeem Hardison, actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)
- 1967 - Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
- 1968 - John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)
- 1968 - Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Phila Eagles)
- 1969 - Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
- 1969 - Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
- 1969 - Steve Jennings, Washington DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
- 1970 - Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
- 1970 - Gerald Ressman, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
- 1970 - Philip Sykes, Tacoma Wash, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
- 1970 - Stephanie Adams, New Jersey, playmate (Nov, 1992)
- 1973 - Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands (1996)
- 1974 - Steve Bornhoeft, LaGrange Illinois, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
- 1975 - Gloria Pizzichini, Italy, tennis star
- 1976 - Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992)
- 1976 - Chris[tian] Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower (Oly-96)
- 1976 - Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
- 1977 - Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
- 1977 - Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe (1997)
- 1982 - Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress (Piano)
- 1987 - Mara Wilson, actress (Mrs Doubtfire)
- 1990 - Evan James Springsteen, Los Angeles California, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son
- 1993 - Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
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