- 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, English adventurer and a favorite of
                 Queen Elizabeth I, was executed in London for treason.
               - 1682: William Penn landed at what is now Chester, Pa.
               - 1814: The first steam-powered warship, the USS Fulton, was
                 launched at New York. It was designed by Robert Fulton.
               - 1863: The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
               - 1872: J.S. Risdon patented the metal windmill.
               - 1901: The man who assassinated President McKinley, Leon Czolgosz,
                 was electrocuted.
               - 1904: The first intercity trucking service began operating.
               - 1929: "Black Tuesday" on the New York Stock Exchange was triggered
                 when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 30.57 points or 11.73
                 percent, beginning the great depression.
               - 1942: The Alaska highway was completed.
               - 1945: The first U.S. Medal of Freedom awarded to a woman was given
                 to Anna Rosenberg by Robert Porter Patterson, Secretary of War. The
                 first ball point pen was sold.
               - 1956: In the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai
                 Peninsula.
               - 1958: Russia's Boris Pasternak turned down the Nobel prize for
                 literature; Dr. F. Mason Sones became the first doctor to perform a
                 coronary angiogram.
               - 1966: The National Organization for Women was formed.
               - 1969: The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to school
                 desegregation.
               - 1974: President Ford signed into law a bill banning discrimination
                 on the basis of sex or marital status in credit applications.

               *Happy Birthday*
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               - Richard Dreyfuss, 51, actor, "Jaws"
               - Joely Fisher, 31, actress, "Ellen"
               - Finola Hughes, 39, actress/ballerina
               - Kate Jackson, 50, actress, "Charlie's Angels"
               - Johann Olav Koss, 30, speed skater, won three gold medals at 1994
                 Olympics
               - Melba Moore, 53, actress/singer, "Melba"
               - Denis Charles Potvin, 45, NHL defensive, won Norris Trophy three
                 times, five-time All-NHL 1st-team
               - Winona Ryder, 27, actress, "The Age of Innocence"