- 1701: Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale and
                  the Celsius thermometer, was born.
                - 1817: U.S. soldiers attacked Florida Indian village, beginning the
                  Seminole War.
                - 1826: John Walker invented the friction match in England.
                - 1870: The New York Times dubbed baseball "The National Game."
                - 1889: Curtis P. Brady received the first permit to drive an
                  automobile through Central Park in New York City.
                - 1896: The premiere performance of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" ("Thus
                  Spake Zarathustra") took place in Frankfurt, Germany, conducted by
                  composer Richard Strauss.
                - 1910: New York's Pennsylvania Station opened as the world's largest
                  railway terminal.
                - 1924: 57,000 people, the largest crowd to see a high school
                  football game, watched Los Angeles High and Polytechnic High fight
                  to a 7-7 tie.
                - 1942: Jimi Hendrix, U.S. guitarist, singer and songwriter, was born.
                - 1947: Joe DiMaggio won his third MVP, beating Ted Williams by one
                  vote.
                - 1953: Eugene O'Neill, playwright and the first U.S. winner of the
                  Nobel prize for Literature (1936), died.
                - 1960: Detroit's Gordie Howe scored his 1,000th NHL point with an
                  assist; A year to the day later, Howe became the first to play in
                  1,000 NHL games.
                - 1962: The first test flight of the Boeing 727 took place.
                - 1971: Soviet Mars 2 became the first spacecraft to crash land on
                  Mars.
                - 1973: The U.S. Senate voted 92-to-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as
                  vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.
                - 1975: Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox became the first rookie to win
                  the MVP.
                - 1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey
                  Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by
                  former supervisor Dan White.
                - 1990: Britain's ruling Conservative Party chose John Major to
                  succeed Margaret Thatcher as party leader and prime minister.
                - 1992: The Venezuelan government said it had put down a coup attempt
                  by rebel soldiers in which up to 50 people were killed, hundreds
                  wounded and the presidential palace bombed.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Curtis Armstrong, 44, actor, "Moonlighting," "Revenge of the Nerds"
                - Robin Givens, 34, actress, "Head of the Class," "Sparks"
                - Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg, 41, attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter
                - Fisher Stevens, 35, actor, "Early Edition"
                - Jaleel White, 22, actor, "Family Matters"