- 1691: Yorktown, Va., was founded.
                - 1743: The earliest rules for boxing were laid down in England by
                  Jack Broughton.
                - 1777: American forces won a key battle, the Battle of Bennington
                  in Vermont, in the Revolutionary War.
                - 1780: The British defeated American forces in the Battle of Camden
                  in South Carolina.
                - 1829: Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrived in Boston so they
                  could be exhibited in the U.S.
                - 1858: Queen Victoria telegraphed a message to President James
                  Buchanan; it was sent over the recently laid Trans-Atlantic cable.
                - 1861: President Lincoln said the Union states could not trade with
                  the Confederate seceding states.
                - 1894: Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge
                  their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old
                  Indian faith.
                - 1896: The Klondike Gold Rush began.
                - 1898: Edwin Prescott patented the roller coaster.
                - 1904: New York City began building Grand Central Station.
                - 1920: Poet/writer Charles Bukowski ("Post Office," "Betting on the
                  Muse: Poems & Stories") was born in Andernach, Germany.
                - 1934: The U.S. occupation of Haiti ended.
                - 1948: Baseball legend George Herman "Babe" Ruth died at 53.
                - 1954: "Sports Illustrated" magazine began publishing.
                - 1960: The Republic of the Congo (later Zaire, now the Democratic
                  Republic of the Congo) formed.
                - 1969: The Woodstock festival began in New York.
                - 1977: Elvis Presley, 42, died of drug-indiced heart failure.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Angela Bassett, 40, actress/singer, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"
                - Bruce Beresford, 58, director "Tender Mercies"
                - James Cameron, 44, director "Titanic"
                - Robert Culp, 68, actor, "I Spy"
                - Frank Gifford, 68, "Monday Night Football" announcer, former NFL
                  quarterback.
                - Kathie Lee Gifford, 45, talk show hostess, "Regis & Kathie Lee"
                - Eydie Gorme, 66, singer, with husband Steve Lawrence
                - Timothy Hutton, 38, actor "Ordinary People," "City of Industry"
                - Donovan Leitch (Jr.), 30, actor/musician "I Shot Andy Warhol"
                - Madonna (Louise Ciccone), 40, actress/singer, "Evita"
                - Julie Newmar, 63, actress, "Batman's" Catwoman
                - Fess Parker, 73, actor/singer "Old Yeller"
                - Shimon Peres, 75, former Israeli Labor Party leader, prime
                  minister, finance minister
                - Reginald VelJohnson, 46, actor, "Family Matters"
                - Lesley Ann Warren, 52, actress, "Victor/Victoria"