1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther .
1777 - Battle of Princeton . American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis .
1815 - Austria , Britain , and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia .
1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico
1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic[?] .
1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City
1840 - One of the Herald-Sun Melbourne, Australia 's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh.
1847 - California town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco
1861 - American Civil War : Delaware votes not to secede from the United States
1868 - The Japanese Meiji dynasty is restored and the Shogunate is abolished.
1899 - The first known use of the word "automobile ", in an editorial in the New York Times 1920 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan. The loan was to finance Frazee's Broadway production of the musical No, No, Nanette[?] 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy .
1926 - General Theodorus Pángulos[?] names himself dictator of Greece
1938 - The March of Dimes[?] is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
1947 - Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time.
1951 - Dragnet television for the first time (NBC 1957 - Hamilton Watch Company[?] introduces the first electric watch .
1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state .
1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba .
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro .
1966 - First Acid Test[?] at the Fillmore Auditorium[?] , San Francisco, California .
1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner[?] .
1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
1993 - In Moscow , George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty[?] (START).
1997 - NBC Today show Bryant Gumbel[?] signs off for the last time.
2000 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published
106 BC - Cicero , Roman statesman and philosopher (+ 43 BC )
1793 - Lucretia Mott , women's rights activist and abolitionist
1829 - Konrad Duden[?] , philologist (+ 1911 )
1879 - Grace Coolidge[?] , First Lady
1883 - Clement Attlee , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1967 )
1887 - August Macke[?] , painter (+ 1914 )
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien , writer and philologist (+ 1973 )
1897 - Pola Negri[?] , actress (+ 1987 )
1897 - Marion Davies , actress (+ 1961 )
1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem , President of South Vietnam (+ 1963 )
1905 - Anna May Wong[?] , actress (+ 1961 )
1907 - Ray Milland , actor (+ 1986 )
1909 - Victor Borge , entertainer and humorist (+ 2000 )
1911 - John Sturges[?] , director
1916 - Betty Furness[?] , actress, consumer activist
1924 - Hank Stram[?] , American football coach, broadcaster
1926 - George Martin , "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles ' records
1929 - Sergio Leone , director (+ 1989 )
1930 - Robert Loggia[?] , actor
1932 - Dabney Coleman[?] , actor
1936 - Georgina Spelvin[?] , pornographic film actress
1939 - Bobby Hull , ice hockey player
1941 - Van Dyke Parks , musician, composer
1942 - John Thaw , actor (+ 2002 )
1945 - Stephen Stills , singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 - Victoria Principal[?] , actress
1946 - John Paul Jones , bassist from Led Zeppelin
1956 - Mel Gibson , actor and director
1960 - Joan Chen[?] , actress
1969 - Michael Schumacher , Formula One driver
1975 - Danica McKellar , actress
1976 - Jason Marsden , actor
1989 - Alex D. Linz , actor
1322 - Philip V , king of France
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood , potter
1933 - Jack Pickford , actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy"
1945 - Edgar Cayce , psychic
1950 - Emil Jannings , actor
1967 - Jack Ruby , convicted killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
1979 - Conrad Hilton , hotelier
1980 - Joy Adamson , conservationist and author of Born Free[?] 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson[?] , actress
2002 - Freddy Heineken , CEO of the beer brewery
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