- 1558: Following the death of Queen Mary, Elizabeth I ascended the
                 English throne.
               - 1755: King Louis XVIII Of France was born.
               - 1785: The Church of England was organized in New England.
               - 1800: Congress held its first session in Washington in the
                 partially completed Capitol building.
               - 1800: John Adams moves into the White House, making him the first
                 president to live there.
               - 1853: Street signs were authorized at San Francisco intersections.
               - 1863: Lincoln began the first draft of his Gettysburg Address.
               - 1869: The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and
                 the Red seas.
               - 1889: The Union Pacific Railroad Company began direct, daily
                 railroad service between Chicago and Portland, Ore., as well as
                 Chicago and San Francisco.
               - 1902: Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician and physicist who played a
                 prominent role in the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear
                 energy, was born.
               - 1914: U.S. declared Panama Canal Zone neutral.
               - 1917: Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press.
               - 1928: Boston Garden officially opened.
               - 1933: U.S. recognized the USSR and opened trade.
               - 1968: The movie "Heidi" became a footnote in sports history when
                 NBC cut away from the last 1:05 of the New York Jets-Oakland
                 Raiders game in order to permit the children's special to begin on
                 time. Viewers missed the rally as the Raiders came from a 32-29
                 deficit and scored two touchdowns in the last 42 seconds to win,
                 43-32.
               - 1969: The strategic arms limitation (SALT) talks between the
                 United States and the Soviet Union began in Helsinki, Finland.
               - 1972: Juan Peron returned to Argentina.
               - 1973: President Nixon told Associated Press managing editors
                 meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether or
                 not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
               - 1991: The first TV condom ad aired on FOX-TV.
               - 1997: Egypt's biggest Islamic militant group, al-Gama'a al-Islamiya,
                 killed 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians at the temples of
                 Luxor in their deadliest attack.

               *Happy Birthday*
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               - Brandon Call, 22, actor, "Step by Step"
               - Justin Cooper, 10, actor, "Liar, Liar"
               - Danny DeVito, 54, actor, "Living Out Loud"
               - Ronald DeVoe, 31, singer, Bell Biv DeVoe
               - Daisy Fuentes, 32, model, MTV veejay
               - Isaac Hanson, 18, singer/musician, Hanson
               - Lauren Hutton, 55, model/actress
               - Gordon Lightfoot, 60, singer
               - Sophie Marceau, 32, actress, "Braveheart"
               - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, 40, actress, "The Abyss"
               - Bob Mathias, 68, Olympic athlete, Congressman, youngest winner of
                 decathlon at age 17
               - Lorne Michaels, 54, producer, "Saturday Night Live"
               - RuPaul, 38, model/actor
               - Martin Scorsese, 56, director, "GoodFellas"
               - Tom Seaver, 54, MLB Pitcher, three-time Cy Young Award winner