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On this day for the United States
Events
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1864 -
American Civil War:
Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails - Plans to free 15,000
Union soldiers being held near
Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
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1892 -
St. Petersburg, Florida incorporated.
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1916 -
Child labor: In
South Carolina, the minimum
working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
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1932 -
TIME magazine features eccentric
American politician
William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for
President of the United States.
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1936 -
Baby Snooks, played by
Fanny Brice, debuts on the
radio program
The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
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1940 - For her role as Mammy in
Gone with the Wind,
Hattie McDaniel becomes the first
African American to win an
Academy Award.
- 1940 - In a ceremony held in
Berkeley, California, because of the
war, physicist
Ernest Lawrence receives his 1939
Nobel Prize in Physics from the
Sweden's
Consul General in
San Francisco.
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1944 -
World War II: The
Admiralty Islands are invaded in the American General
Douglas MacArthur-led
Operation Brewer.
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1956 - U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term.
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1972 -
Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of
Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.
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1996 - Novelist
Joan Collins awarded US $1 million from
Random House for breach of contract.
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2000 - Six year old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills
Kayla Rolland, also six years old, at Theo J. Buell Elementary School in
Mount Morris Township, Michigan.
Births
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1736 -
Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers (d.
1784)
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1860 -
Herman Hollerith, American statistician (d.
1929)
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1896 -
William A. Wellman, American film director (d.
1975)
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1904 -
Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d.
1957)
- 1904 -
Pepper Martin, baseball player (d.
1965)
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1908 -
Dee Brown, American writer (d.
2002)
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1916 -
Dinah Shore, American singer (d.
1994)
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1920 -
Arthur Franz, American actor (d.
2006)
- 1920 -
James Mitchell, American actor
- 1920 -
Howard Nemerov, American poet (d.
1991)
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1924 -
Al Rosen, American baseball player
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1928 -
Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer
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1932 -
Gene Golub, American mathematician (d.
2007)
- 1932 -
Masten Gregory, American F1 Driver (d.
1985)
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1936 -
Jack Lousma, astronaut
- 1936 -
Alex Rocco, American actor
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1940 -
William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer
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1944 -
Phyllis Frelich, American actress
- 1944 -
Dennis Farina, American actor
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1952 -
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush, American television personality
- 1952 -
Tim Powers, American writer
- 1952 -
Bart Stupak, American politician
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1956 -
Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer
- 1956 -
Bob Speller, Canadian politician
- 1956 -
Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d.
2002)
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1960 -
Khaled, Algerian
raï musician
- 1960 -
Richard Ramirez, American serial killer
- 1960 -
Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker
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1968 -
Chucky Brown, American basketball player
- 1968 -
Pete Fenson, American curler
- 1968 -
Bryce Paup, American football player
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1972 -
Dave Williams, American singer (
Drowning Pool) (d.
2002)
- 1972 -
Saul Williams, American rapper, poet, and actor
- 1972 -
Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist (d.
1994)
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1976 -
Ja Rule, American rapper and actor
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1980 -
Taylor Twellman, American soccer player
- 1980 -
Chris Conley, American musician
Deaths