- 48BC: Pompey the Great, one of the great statesmen and generals of
                        the Roman Republic, was murdered in Egypt.
                      - 1066: Duke William of Normandy landed at Pevensey, Sussex, and
                        began the Norman conquest of England.
                      - 1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator, became the
                        first European to land on the West Coast in San Diego, Calif.
                      - 1781: The siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., began with 9,000 American
                        troops backed by a French fleet of 7,000 French forces, in the
                        Revolutionary War.
                      - 1787: Congress voted to send the Constitution to state legislatures
                        for approval.
                      - 1850: The Navy banned flogging as a punishment.
                      - 1858: Donati's comet became the first comet to be photographed.
                      - 1892: The first night football game was played in Mansfield, Pa.
                      - 1904: In New York City, a woman was arrested for smoking a
                        cigarette.
                      - 1924: Itailian actor Marcello Mastroianni was born (d: 1996,
                        cancer). Starred in more than 125 films including "8 1/2."
                      - 1939: In World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on how
                        to partition Poland.
                      - 1959: Explorer VI took the first television pictures of the Earth,
                        revealing a radiation belt encircling the planet.
                      - 1971: Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary, who took refuge in the
                        U.S. Embassy in Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, agreed
                        to end his exile and flew to Rome as a guest of the pope.
                      - 1975: Congress passed a bill authorizing that women be admitted to
                        military academies of the three U.S. service branches.
                      - 1976: Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act, calling for
                        testing of new chemicals for their impact on the environment and
                        health before they were marketed.
                      - 1978: Pope John Paul I died after only 33 days in office and was
                        succeeded by John Paul II; former Defense Minister P.W. Botha was
                        elected prime minister of South Africa and became the first
                        government head to visit Johannesburg's sprawling black township of
                        Soweto.
                      - 1991: Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis died in California at age 65.

                      *Happy Birthday*
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                      - Brigitte Bardot, 64, actress/animal rights' activist, "Contempt"
                      - Janeane Garofalo, 34, actress, "Reality Bites"
                      - Jeffrey Jones, 51, actor, "Beetlejuice"
                      - Ben E. King, 60, singer, of the Drifters, "Stand By Me"
                      - Steve Largent, 44, former NFL wide receiver, caught 128 consecutive
                        passes
                      - John Sayles, 48, writer/director, "The Secret of Roan Inish"
                      - Max Schmeling, 93, boxer, world heavyweight boxing champ 1930-32
                      - William Windom, 75, actor, "Murder, She Wrote"
                      - Moon Unit Zappa, 31, actress, "Anarchy TV"