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199163rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves", Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons win
1776Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
1979Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1965Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al
1971Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold
2013Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking
1990Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1584Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America
19461st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1947Elton John, [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
1934Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, US feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
1911Jack Ruby, Chicago Illinois, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
1922Eileen Ford, Manhattan, New York, American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency)
1961Playwright Samuel Beckett (54) weds Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil on a secret civil ceremony in England
1985Professional boxer George Foreman (35) weds Mary Martelly
1918Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1914Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83
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