- 1754: Kings College was founded in New York; it would later be
                       renamed Columbia University.
                     - 1790: President Washington delivered the first annual presidential
                       "State of the Union" speech.
                     - 1809: Louis Braille, French inventor of the blind reading system,
                       was born.
                     - 1863: Four-wheeled roller skates were patented by James Plimpton of
                       New York.
                     - 1885: Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is
                       believed to have been the first appendectomy.
                     - 1887: Thomas Stevens became the first man to bicycle around the
                       world.
                     - 1896: Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah was admitted
                       to the Union to become the 45th state.
                     - 1920: The National Negro Baseball League, the first black baseball
                       league, was organized.
                     - 1932: British Indian government was granted emergency powers to
                       deal with campaign of nationalist civil disobedience. The National
                       Congress party was declared illegal and Mahatma Gandhi was arrested.
                     - 1936: The first-ever pop music sales chart tracking the hits of the
                       day was introduced by Billboard, America's leading music industry
                       magazine.
                     - 1951: In the Korean War, the North Koreans and Chinese communists
                       captured the southern capital of Seoul.
                     - 1954: Elvis Presley, then a Crown Electric Co. truck driver,
                       stopped by a Sun Records studio with an acoustic guitar and paid
                       $4 to record two demos.
                     - 1960: Albert Camus, Algerian-born French existentialist writer,
                       died in a car accident.
                     - 1965: President Lyndon Johnson outlined the goals of his "Great
                       Society" in his State of the Union Address.
                     - 1970: The Beatles held their last recording session, at EMI studios.
                     - 1974: President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and
                       documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
                     - 1977: Mary Shane was hired by the Chicago White Sox as the first
                       female play-by-play announcer on TV.
                     - 1979: Jazz bassist Charles Mingus collapsed and died of a heart
                       attack in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
                     - 1980: President Carter announced the U.S. boycott of the Moscow
                       Olympics.
                     - 1984: The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Minnesota North Stars, 12-8,
                       in the highest-scoring NHL game in NHL history.
                     - 1995: Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia was formally elected speaker of
                       the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Republican to hold the
                       post in 40 years.

                     *Happy Birthday*
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                     - Dyan Cannon, 62, actress, "Ally McBeal"
                     - Deana Carter, 33, country singer
                     - Dave Foley, 36, actor/comedian, "The Kids In The Hall," "NewsRadio"
                     - Guy Forget, 34, tennis player
                     - Matt Frewer, 41, actor/cartoon voice, "Max Headroom," "Hercules"
                     - Patty Loveless,  42, country singer/musician
                     - Julia Ormond, 34, actress, "Legends of the Fall"
                     - Maureen Reagan, 58, political activist, presidential daughter
                     - Don Shula, 69, former NFL Coach
                     - Michael Stipe, 39, singer, R.E.M.
                     - Jane Wyman, 85, actress, "Johnny Belinda," "Falcon Crest"