- 55 BC: Ten thousand men of the 7th and 10th Roman legions under
                 Julius Caesar landed in Deal in England.
               - 1665: A performance of the play "The Bare and Ye Cubb" in the
                 Virginia Colony gave birth to the American entertainment industry.
               - 1776: The British defeated the colonists in the Battle of Long
                 Island.
               - 1813: Napoleon and a force of 130,000 defeated a superior allied
                 force of 200,000 Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the battle of
                 Dresden.
               - 1828: Uruguay formally became a sovereign nation under the Treaty
                 of Rio de Janeiro which ended the war between Brazil and Argentina.
               - 1859: The first commercially productive oil well was drilled near
                 Titusville, Penn., by Edwin Drake.
               - 1894: Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which included
                 a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court.
               - 1896: England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war.
               - 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs' published his "Tarzan of the Apes" in a
                 magazine.
               - 1916: Actress Martha Raye was born in Butte, Mont.
               - 1928: The Kellogg-Briand pact was signed in Paris. The pact sought
                 to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy.
               - 1939: The world's first jet-propelled aeroplane, the Heinkel
                 He-178, made its first flight at Marienehe, Germany.
               - 1945: American troops began landing in Japan after the Japanese
                 government surrendered.
               - 1955: The "Guinness Book of World Records" was first published.
               - 1966: Sir Francis Chichester began the first solo ocean voyage
                 around the world.
               - 1979: Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was
                 killed when a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army destroyed
                 his boat.

               *Happy Birthday*
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               - Barbara Bach, 51, actress, "The Spy Who Loved Me"
               - Daryl Dragon, 56, musician, a.k.a. the Captain of the Captain and
                 Tennille
               - Joan Kroc, 70, buisnesswoman McDonald's, San Diego Padres
               - Ira Levin, 69, author, "Rosemary's Baby," "Boys From Brazil"
               - Paul Reubens, 46, comedian/actor, a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman
               - Tuesday Weld, 55, actress, "Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"