- 1322: Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeated King Edward II of
                  England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
                - 1586: Mary, Queen of Scots, was tried for conspiracy against Queen
                  Elizabeth.
                - 1834: Henry Blair patented a corn planter and became the first
                  black to receive a U.S. patent. George Eastman patented paper-strip
                  photographic film.
                - 1912: President Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin
                  in Milwaukee. He was saved by his thick coat and a bundle of
                  manuscript paper in his breast pocket.
                - 1922: The first automated telephones began operating.
                - 1926: Alan Alexander Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" was released.
                - 1933: Nazi Germany announced it would withdraw from the League of
                  Nations and would take no further part in the Geneva Disarmament
                  Conference.
                - 1944: Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox," famous for his victories as
                  commander of the Afrika Korp in World War II, took cyanide tablets
                  and died before he could be arrested for making contact with
                  anti-Hitler conspirators.
                - 1947: Flying the Bell X-1 rocket-powered research plane, U.S. Air
                  Force Capt. Charles Yeager became the first man to break the sound
                  barrier.
                - 1960: John Kennedy proposed the formation of the Peace Corps.
                - 1964: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel
                  Peace Prize.
                - 1986: Holocaust survivor and human rights proponent Elie Wiesel
                  was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
                - 1988: Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist, became the first
                  Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel literature prize.
                - 1991: Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, held under house
                  arrest for more than two years by her country's military rulers,
                  won the Nobel Peace Prize.
                - 1994: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon
                  Peres and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat
                  shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Harry Anderson, 46, actor/comedian "Dave's World"
                - John Dean, 60, ex-presidential aide and Watergate figure
                - Thomas Dolby, 40, musician
                - Greg Evigan, 45, actor, "Pacific Palisades"
                - Dr. C. Everett Koop, 82, ex-surgeon general
                - Ralph Lauren, 59, fashion designer
                - Roger Moore, 71, actor, "James Bond" movies, "The Saint"
                - Usher (Raymond), 20, R&B/Rap artist
                - John Wooden, 88, legendary basketball player/UCLA coach
                - Sheila Young, 48, speed skater/bicyclist