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19471st Presidential address televised from White House- Harry Truman
1993Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
1980Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
19921st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill)
1833Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina
1511Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss
1916Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
1905Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3"
1993Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum
1568Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart
1965Patrick Roy, Quebec City Quebec, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche)
1965Mario Lemieux, Montreal Quebec, NHL high scoring center (Pitts Penguin, #66)
1713Denis Diderot, Langres, France, enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), (d. 1784)
1963Laura Davies, Coventry England, LPGA golfer (1989 Lady Keystone Open)
1829Chester A. Arthur, Fairfield Vermont, (Republican) 21st American President (1881-85)
1975Kate Winslet, Reading England, actress (Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back)
1949Bill James [George William James], Holton Kansas, American baseball writer and statistician
1882Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Mass, rocket pioneer
1902Ray Kroc, Oak Park, Illinois, fast food entrepreneur (McDonalds), (d. 1984)
1703Jonathan Edwards, East Windsor, Connecticut Colony, Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin)
2001F1 racing driver Ralf Schumacher (26) weds former model Cora Brinkmann at the church of Maria Plain in Salzburg, Austria
1945Actress Janet Leigh (18) weds Stanley Reames at Morris Chapel in Stockton, California
2004Professional golfer Tiger Woods (28) weds former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (24) at Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados
1968"The Dirty Dozen" actor Charles Bronson (46) weds Jill Ireland
1991Director Martin Scorsese (48) divorces producer Barbara De Fina (41) after 6 years of marriage
2007Actress Reese Witherspoon (30) divorces actor Ryan Phillippe (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage
2004Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
1813Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief (Battle of Thames), dies in battle at 45
2011Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist, dies at 89
2011Steve Jobs, American Businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple, dies from respiratory arrest at 56
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