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Birthdays

In 1537 — Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)

1813 — Lyman Trumbull, Illinois senator in Congress, died in 1896

1815 — William Joseph Hardee, lieutenant general (Confederate Army), died in 1873

1822 — Joseph Haydn Potter, brigadier general (Union volunteers), died in 1892

1923 — Jean Nidetch Brooklyn, founded Weight Watchers

1932 — Dick Gregory, comedian, political activist, dietitian (Bahamian Diet)

1932 — Jake Garn, senator, R-Utah, and astronaut (STS 51D)

1935 — Luciano Pavarotti, Modena, Italy, operatic tenor ("Yes, Giorgio")

1936 — Tony Kubek, shortstop (N.Y. Yankees), sportscaster (NBC-TV)

1947 — Chris Wallace, Chicago, newscaster (NBC Weekend News)

1969 — Nancy Ann Kerrigan, Woburn, Mass., figure skater (Olympics, silver, 1994)

Events

1492 — Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day

1518 — Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther

1609 — Children’s rhyme "Three Blind Mice" published in London

1654 — Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident

1775 — U.S. Navy forms

1861 — Confederate ironclad Manassas attacks Union’s Richmond on Mississippi

1862 — JEB Stuart completes his "Second ride around McClellan"

1870 — Robert E. Lee, general of the Confederate Army, dies at 63

1879 — British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan

1886 — Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Second Stain" (BG)

1892 — Pledge of allegiance first recited in public schools

1901 — Theodore Roosevelt renames Executive Mansion as the White House

1933 — Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)

1933 — John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, Ohio, jail

1960 — Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at U.N. General Assembly session

1997 — John Denver, singer ("Country Boy"), dies in plane crash at 53

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