- 1620: Peregrine White, the first child to be born aboard the
                 Mayflower, entered the world.
               - 1789: New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of
                 Rights.
               - 1866: The rotary crank bicycle was patented by Pierre Lallemont in
                 Paris. The bike was known as "the bone shaker."
               - 1873: The rival cities of Buda and Pest united to form the capital
                 of Hungary.
               - 1888: William Bundy invented the first timecard clock.
               - 1902: Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange created the Tour de France
                 bicycle race.
               - 1914: Photos became a requirement for people requesting passports
                 from the U.S. State Department.
               - 1919: The first municipally-owned airport in the nation opened in
                 Tucson, Ariz.
               - 1923: Garrett Morgan patented the traffic signal, his invention.
               - 1925: Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.
               - 1931: The first commercial teletype service was introduced by AT&T.
               - 1934: Toronto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson became first player to score
                 four goals in one period.
               - 1945: The Nazi war crime trials began at Nuremberg.
               - 1947: Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip
                 Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.
               - 1953: Piloting the D-558-II Skyrocket, Scott Crossfield became the
                 first person to break Mach 2 (1,300 mph).
               - 1962: The USSR agreed to remove bombers from Cuba, and the U.S.
                 lifted the blockade.
               - 1967: At 11 a.m., the Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in
                 Washington, D.C. ticked past 200 million.
               - 1969: Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco, Calif., is
                 seized by militant Native Americans.
               - 1969:  Soccer star Pele collected his 1,000th career goal in Rio de
                 Janeiro.
               - 1974: The U.S. filed an antitrust suit to break up AT&T.
               - 1975: Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican
                 nomination for president. The FCC required equal time be given to
                 his opponents if his old movies were shown on TV during his run.
               - 1979: The nation's first artificial blood transfusion occurred at
                 the University of Minnesota Hospital.
               - 1980: Steve Ptacek made the first solar-powered flight.
               - 1983: An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial
                 ABC-TV movie "The Day After," which depicted the outbreak of
                 nuclear holocaust in the United States.
               - 1984: McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger.
               - 1995: The Food and Drug Administration approved the first new
                 therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment in nearly a decade,
                 authorizing the drug 3TC to be used with AZT.

               *Happy Birthday*
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               - Sabrina Lloyd, 28, actress, "Sliders"
               - Ming-Na Wen, 30, actress, "ER"
               - Sean Young, 39, actress, "Blade Runner"
               - Bo Derek, 44, actress, "10"
               - Dick Smothers, 59, comedian
               - Richard Dawson, 66, "Family Feud" host
               - Alistair Cooke, 90, former TV host, "Masterpiece Theatre"
               - Michael (Mike D) Diamond, 33, singer, The Beastie Boys
               - Joe Walsh, 51, guitarist, The Eagles, The James Gang