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1836Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
1958Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
197521st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1918Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden
1973Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"
1964Kenya becomes a republic and Jomo Kenyatta its President
1973George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold
1985"Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1963Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya
198632nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
1926Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress (Some Like It Hot)
1974Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)
1937Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tennessee, Academy award winning actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)
1961Paul Coffey, Weston Ontario, NHL forward (Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings)
1801Brigham Young, Whitingham Vermont, American religious leader (Mormon church)
1973Heidi Klum, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, German supermodel
1985Country singer Merle Haggard (48) weds fourth wife Debbie Parret
1896Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (41) marries Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (41)in Covent Garden, London.
1889Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (21) weds socialite Catherine Tobin
1972Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (30) weds second wife Carole Hoff
1941Actress Gene Tierney (20) weds fashion designer Oleg Cassini (28)
1933Charlie Chaplin (44) weds Paulette Goddard (22)
1963Actor Rod Taylor (33) weds model Mary Hilem (25) at Westwood Community Methodist Church in Hollywood
2013Singer Diana DeGarmo (26) weds singer Ace Young (33) at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard hotel in Los Angeles
1997Grammy Award-winning singer Kenny Rogers (59) weds Wanda Miller (31) at his ranch in Athens, Georgia
1949Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1968Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1868James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
1952John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
1971Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78
1872James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76
2005George Mikan, American basketball player, dies at 80
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