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1958"Dracula", starring Christopher Lee as the titular vampire, debuts
1947A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson & the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
1994Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1967Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
1960Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
1660English parliament declares Charles Stuart to be King Charles II of England
1521Parliament of Worms installs edict against Martin Luther
1933Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1988Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC
1932Sonny Liston, Sand Slough Arkansas, American heavyweight boxer
1737Edward Gibbon, Putney, English historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
1911Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer)
1957Bill Cowher, Crafton Pennsylvania, American football coach
1975Enrique Iglesias, Madrid, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop (Bailamos, Hero)
1940Peter Benchley, NYC, novelist (Jaws, The Deep), (d. 2006)
1968Omar Camporese, Bologna Italy, tennis star
1753Phillis Wheatley, American poet who was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman.
1926David Attenborough, London UK, Naturalist, TV producer and host (BBC "Life" Series)
1884Harry Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953), (d. 1972)
1959Actress Raquel Welch (18) weds high school sweetheart James Welch
1783First American flag seamstress Betsy Ross (31) weds John Claypoole at Christ Church
1910Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (27) weds first wife Blanche Lasky
1981Author John Grisham (26) weds Renee Jones
1873John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1819Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819)
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