- 1512: Michelangelo's paintings on the Sistine Chapel ceiling went
                  on display.
                - 1604: William Shakespeare's "Othello" premiered at Whitehall Palace
                  in London.
                - 1765: The Stamp Act went into effect.
                - 1776: In California, the Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded.
                - 1848: The Boston Female Medical School, the first medical school
                  for women in the U.S. opened with 12 students.
                - 1864: The U.S. Post Office began selling money orders.
                - 1870: The U.S. Weather Bureau began making meteorological
                  observations.
                - 1873: Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire.
                - 1911: The Italian Air Corps made history's first air bombing raid.
                  Chevrolet Motor Co. was incorporated.
                - 1914: Mary Jacobs invented the bra.
                - 1936: In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the
                  Rome-Berlin Axis after a visit to Berlin by Italian foreign
                  secretary Ciano.
                - 1939: The first animal was conceived by artificial insemination.
                - 1950: An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Truman was
                  made by two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement.
                - 1963: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo
                  Dinh Nhu were killed in a military coup.
                - 1973: In the Watergate scandal, after the "Saturday night
                  massacre," acting Attorney General Robert Bork appointed Leon
                  Jaworski the new Watergate special prosecutor.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Al Arbour, 66, former NHL player/coach
                - Sir Hermann Bondi, 79, mathematician/cosmologist, collaborated on
                  steady-state theory of the universe
                - Keith Emerson, 54, keyboardist with Emerson, Lake and Palmer
                - Larry Flynt, 56, publisher, "Hustler" magazine
                - James Jackson Kilpatrick, 78, columnist/journalist, "60 minutes"
                - Lyle Lovett, 41, country singer/songwriter
                - Jenny McCarthy, 26, actress/Playboy playmate
                - Larry Mullen Jr., 37, drummer of U2
                - Betsy Palmer, 69, actress
                - Gary Player, 63, golfer, won all four Grand Slam titles
                - Rachel Ticotin, 40, actress, "Con Air"
                - Fernando Valenzuela, 38, MLB pitcher
                - Marcia Wallace, 56, actress, voice on "The Simpsons"