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1776George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1949"On the Town", the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Vera-Ellen, is released
1966A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
1987Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
1955Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
1914Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
19934th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win
1987US President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1980Annie Leibovitz has a photo-shoot with John Lennon, the last person to professionally photograph him before his death
1994Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
1943Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1765Eli Whitney, Westborough Massachusetts, inventor (Cotton Gin)
1982Nicki Minaj, Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer (Super Bass, Starships)
1962Steve Elkington, Inverell New South Wales, Australian golfer (1995 PGA Championship)
65 BCHorace, Venusia, Lucania, Roman Republian poet (Odes), (d. 8 BC)
1886Diego Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo (En el Arsenal ), (d. 1957)
1542Mary Stuart, Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587), (d. 1587)
1953Sam Kinison, Yakima, Washington, screaming comedian and actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover)
1950NBA player Bob Cousy (22) weds his college sweetheart Missie Ritterbusch
1872Religious leader Brigham Young (71) weds his fifty-fifth wife Hannah Tapfield in Salt Lake City, Utah
1980John Lennon, shot and killed in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
1942Albert Kahn, architect of Detroit, dies at 73
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