- 1535: Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru.
                     - 1778: English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian
                       Islands, which he dubbed the Sandwich Islands.
                     - 1779: Peter Mark Roget, the creator of the thesaurus of English
                       words and phrases that bears his name, was born.
                     - 1788: The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay
                       to establish a penal colony.
                     - 1882: Alan Alexander (A.A.) Milne, English writer and creator of
                       "Winnie the Pooh," was born.
                     - 1904: Actor Cary Grant was born in England as Archibald Alexander
                       Leach.
                     - 1912: English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached
                       the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten
                       there first.
                     - 1929: "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell made his
                       debut on radio.
                     - 1943: A wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the United
                       States - aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal replacement
                       parts - went into effect.
                     - 1958: William O'Ree, the first black person played in the NHL with
                       the Boston Bruins.
                     - 1962: The U.S. began spraying the foliage in Vietnam with pesticide
                       to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas.
                     - 1964: Plans for the World Trade Center in New York City were
                       announced in New York; The Beatles entered the Billboard U.S.
                       singles chart for the first time with "I Want To Hold Your Hand" at
                       No. 35, just ten days after its release, making it the
                       fastest-breaking and the fastest-selling single in Capitol Records
                       history.
                     - 1966: Robert Clifton Weaver, the Secretary of Housing & Urban
                       Development, became the first black cabinet member.
                     - 1967: Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was
                       convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex
                       offenses.
                     - 1973: John Cleese filmed his final episode of "Monty Python's
                       Flying Circus."
                     - 1980: Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were sentenced
                       to 3-1/2 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000.
                     - 1990: Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested in a drug
                       enforcement sting operation after he was videotaped smoking crack.
                     - 1993: The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in all 50
                       states for the first time.
                     - 1996: Baseball owners broke with more than a century of tradition,
                       unanimously approving interleague play in 1997.
                     - 1997: Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky resigned after nearly 11
                       years in power.

                     *Happy Birthday*
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                     - John Boorman, 66, film director, "Deliverance"
                     - Kevin Costner, 44, actor
                     - Ray Dolby, 66, inventor, Dolby Noise Reduction Systems
                     - John Hughes, 49, film producer/director, "Home Alone"
                     - Mark Messier, 38, NHL Center
                     - DJ Quik, 29, rapper