- 1575: Henry Hudson, English navigator and explorer, was born. On
                        this date in 1609, he founded the river later named after him.
                      - 1624: The first submarine was tested in London.
                      - 1878: The obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, originally cut from
                        the quarries of Aswan in about 1475 BC, was erected in London.
                      - 1910: The world's first woman police officer, Alice Stebbins Wells,
                        was appointed to the Los Angeles Police Department.
                      - 1913: Track star Jesse Owens was born (d: 1980). Won four gold
                        medals at 1936 Berlin Olympics.
                      - 1935: Millionaire Howard Hughes flew a plane of his own design at
                        352.46 mph to establish the first of his several aviation records.
                      - 1940: Four teenagers, following their dog when it disappeared down
                        a hole near Lascaux, France, discovered 17,000-year-old drawings
                        now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings.
                      - 1941: The U.S. ship Busko captured the first German ship to be
                        seized in World War II.
                      - 1943: German paratroopers, on the orders of Adolf Hitler, seized
                        former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held
                        prisoner by the government.
                      - 1944: U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time.
                      - 1958: The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a Little Rock, Ark. high
                        school to admit African American students.
                      - 1968: Albania announced it was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.
                      - 1970: The supersonic airliner Concorde landed for the first time at
                        Heathrow airport in London, causing a barrage of complaints about
                        the noise.
                      - 1972: An Icelandic gunboat sank two British trawlers in the North
                        Sea in the first hostilities of the "Cod War."
                      - 1977: South African black civil rights leader Steve Biko died in
                        police detention.
                      - 1990: East and West Germany and the World War II allies signed a
                        treaty to restore sovereignty to a united Germany and define its
                        international status.
                      - 1995: English actor Jeremy Brett ("Sherlock Holmes") died at age 59.

                      *Happy Birthday*
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                      - Wilfredo Benitez, 40, boxer, youngest man at age 17 to ever win a
                        world championship boxing match
                      - Terry Bradshaw, 50, NFL commentator/former quarterback, 2-time
                        Super Bowl MVP, led Pittsburgh Steelers to four titles
                      - Darren E. Burrows, 32, actor "Nortern Exposure"
                      - Linda Gray, 58, actress, "Melrose Place"
                      - Ian Holm, 67, actor, Academy Award winner for "Chariots of Fire"
                      - George Jones, 67, country singer/guitarist
                      - Larry LaLonde, 30, bassist, leader of Primus
                      - Dickie Moore, 73, actor, "Our Gang"
                      - Joe Pantoliano, 44, actor, "Risky Business"
                      - Neil Peart, 46, drummer, songwriter of Rush
                      - Irina Rodnina, 49, pairs figure skater, Olympic-gold-1972, '76,
                        '80, holder of ten pairs skating titles
                      - Peter Scolari, 44, actor, "Bosom Buddies"
                      - Rachel Ward, 41, actress, "The Thorn Birds"
                      - Barry White, 54, singer/songwriter, "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
                        Babe"
                      - Amy Yasbeck, 34, actress, "The Mask"