- 1587: Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents
                  to be born in America in the Roanoke Island colony.
                - 1591: The Governor of the Roanoke Island colony returned from
                  England and found everyone in the colony had disappeared.
                - 1862: The Sioux Indians began an uprising in Minnesota; it was
                  later crushed.
                - 1868: Pierre Janssan discovered helium.
                - 1872: The first mail-order catalog was issued by A. M. Ward.
                - 1894: Congress formed the Bureau of Immigration.
                - 1914: President Woodrow Wilson issued his "Proclamation of
                  Neutrality" to keep the U.S. out of World War I.
                - 1920: Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th
                  Amendment, guaranteeing a woman's right to vote.
                - 1926: A weather map was televised for the first time.
                - 1932: Scottish aviator Jim Mollison made the first westbound
                  transatlantic solo flight, from Portmarnock, Ireland, to Pennfield,
                  New Brunswick.
                - 1954: James E. Wilkins became the first black to attend a U.S.
                  cabinet meeting. He was Assistant Secretary of Labor and attended
                  because the Secretary and Under-Secretary were away.
                - 1960: The first commercially-produced oral contraceptive, Enovid
                  10, was debuted in Skokie, Ill.
                - 1961: The Berlin Wall was completed.
                - 1963: James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the
                  University of Mississippi.
                - 1964: South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games because of
                  its apartheid policies.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Elayne Boosler, 46, comedian
                - Vincent Bugliosi, 64, attorney/author, "Helter-Skelter"
                - Rosalynn Carter, 71, former first lady, Jimmy's wife
                - Rafer Johnson, 63, former Olympic decathlete
                - Martin Mull, 55, actor, "Roseanne," "Mrs. Doubtfire"
                - Roman Polanski, 65, director, "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown"
                - Robert Redford, 61, actor/director, "The Horse Whisperer"
                - Marge Schott, 70, Cincinnati Reds owner
                - Christian Slater, 29, actor, "Untamed Heart"
                - Madeleine Stowe, 40, actress, "12 Monkeys"
                - Patrick Swayze, 44, actor, "Ghost"
                - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 28, actor, "The Cosby Show"