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1978Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1982"Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV, Bill Murray is first guest
1992Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by NY Islanders
1327Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1923Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
1969Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1896Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1669French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1587Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
1965Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1902Langston Hughes, Joplin, Missouri, American poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto)
1948Rick James (James Ambrose Johnson Jr), Buffalo New York, American funk musician
1931Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1918Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1901Clark Gable, Cadiz Ohio, American actor (Gone With the Wind)
1882Louis St. Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
1968Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, Memphis Tenn, daughter of Elvis
1895John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1997Retired MLB player Johnny Bench (49) weds stockbroker Elizabeth Benton
1840Novelist Alexandre Dumas (37) weds actress Ida Ferrier
1944Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
1851Mary Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumour at 53
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