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1924J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1864Battle for Petersburg begins as General Ulysses S. Grant assaults Confederate line
1877Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy
1985Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1626King Charles I disbands English parliament
1969Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1948Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win test match anyway
1940France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris during WWII
1997British model Naomi Campbell hospitalized due to drug overdose
1864Robert E. Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery
1969Cedric Pioline, Neuilly France, tennis star (1996 Coopenhagen)
1973Neil Patrick Harris, Albuquerque NM, actor (Doogie Howser MD)
1923Erroll Garner, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, American jazz pianist (Misty)
1908Sam Giancana, Chicago Illinois, American mafioso
1964Courteney Cox, Birmingham, Alabama, American actress (Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends)
1969Ice Cube, rap singer/actor (Boyz in the Hood, Anaconda)
2010Film actor and producer Harrison Ford (67) weds actress and Golden Globe Award winner Calista Flockhart (45) in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1953Sci-Fi author Arthur C. Clarke (35) weds Marilyn Torgenson in New York
1777First American flag seamstress Betsy Ross (25) weds mariner Joseph Ashburn
2002Actor Charlie Sheen (36) weds actress Denise Richards (31) under a rose arch dotted by over 1000 blooms in Brentwood, California
2011Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley (45) divorces businessman Arun Nayar due to husband's unreasonable behavior
1989Singer-songwriter Courtney Love (24) divorces vocalist James Moreland only 4 months after getting married
2014Casey Kasem, creator of American Top 40 and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, dies from Lewy body dementia at 82
1996Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78
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