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- 1729 - Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
- 1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
- 1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state
- 1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
- 1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
- 1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
- 1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
- 1887 - 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
- 1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York City)
- 1892 - New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
- 1897 - 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
- 1913 - 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
- 1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
- 1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
- 1934 - US Information Service opens
- 1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
- 1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh North Carolina)
- 1947 - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
- 1950 - New York City hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
- 1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
- 1959 - Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
- 1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
- 1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
- 1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
- 1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
- 1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
- 1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
- 1968 - US Mint stops buying & selling gold
- 1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
- 1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
- 1979 - Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
- 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1988 - Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
- 1989 - Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
- 1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
- 1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
- 1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
- 1945 - Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
- 1945 - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain New York
- 1978 - A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
- 1994 - Experts from Alabama certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
- 1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
- 1958 - Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
- 1958 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
- 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
- 1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
- 1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
- 1981 - Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
- 1992 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
- 1998 - Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
- 1979 - Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
- 1989 - New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
- 1997 - Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
- 1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1901 - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
- 1922 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
- 1945 - 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," & Ingrid Bergman win
- 1945 - Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
- 1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
- 1948 - WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1949 - WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1949 - WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, Ohio (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
- 1954 - WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, Indiana (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 - WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ
- 1958 - KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, Montana (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1959 - WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, Michigan (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1962 - KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, Oregon (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1963 - WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1965 - WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 - 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand
- 1967 - WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, Tennessee (PBS) 1st broadcast
- 1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
- 1971 - CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
- 1977 - "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV
- 1977 - US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
- 1982 - Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
- 1982 - KGB-AM in San Diego California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
- 1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
- 1987 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
- 1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
- 1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
- 1930 - 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, New York
- 1930 - 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
- 1941 - Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
- 1889 - 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
- 1941 - Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
- 1972 - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
- 1972 - NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
- 1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
- 1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
- 1943 - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
- 1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov
- 1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
- 1862 - General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee
- 1864 - Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
- 1972 - Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama
- 1975 - Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
- 1982 - Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
- 1991 - 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King
- 1965 - T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in New York City
- 76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
- 1493 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France
- 1666 - Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden)
- 1678 - Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop
- 1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
- 1733 - Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized
- 1750 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer
- 1754 - Silvestro Palma, composer
- 1767 - Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1829-37)
- 1779 - William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
- 1790 - Nicola Vaccai, composer
- 1801 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
- 1808 - Gaetano Gaspari, composer
- 1809 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
- 1810 - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
- 1811 - Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
- 1824 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
- 1830 - Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
- 1831 - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army)
- 1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
- 1836 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
- 1838 - Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
- 1844 - Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
- 1851 - Jozef Surzynski, composer
- 1852 - Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
- 1858 - Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
- 1864 - Johan Halvorsen, composer
- 1864 - Leslie Stuart, composer
- 1867 - Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
- 1867 - Will Rossiter, composer
- 1871 - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
- 1873 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer
- 1873 - Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)
- 1874 - Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
- 1878 - Hanson Carter, cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century)
- 1879 - Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
- 1884 - Rudolf Piskacek, composer
- 1894 - Slava Vorlova, composer
- 1900 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
- 1901 - J Pat O'Malley, England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
- 1901 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
- 1902 - Kitty Masters, actress
- 1902 - Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela)
- 1904 - George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
- 1905 - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
- 1905 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
- 1907 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)
- 1907 - Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)
- 1910 - An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
- 1912 - Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
- 1912 - Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
- 1912 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
- 1913 - Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
- 1913 - MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
- 1915 - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
- 1915 - Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
- 1916 - Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee)
- 1916 - Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
- 1918 - Janet Leach, potter
- 1918 - Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)
- 1919 - John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)
- 1919 - Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
- 1920 - Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
- 1922 - Louis Boon, writer
- 1923 - George Vogel, race horse trainer
- 1923 - Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
- 1924 - Juij Bondarew, writer
- 1924 - Lockrem Johnson, composer
- 1926 - Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer
- 1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
- 1926 - Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983- )
- 1927 - Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
- 1927 - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect
- 1928 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
- 1929 - Tiezo Matsumura, composer
- 1932 - Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3)
- 1932 - David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
- 1933 - Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer/jazz pianist (U of Wisconsin)
- 1933 - Ronald Roseman, composer
- 1934 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter
- 1934 - Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
- 1935 - Jimmy Lee Swaggart, evangelist
- 1935 - Judd Hirsch, Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
- 1936 - Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
- 1938 - Dick Higgins, composer
- 1939 - Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
- 1940 - Phil Lesh, [Chapman], Calif, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
- 1941 - Dick Top, Dutch actor/director (Witch of Haarlem)
- 1941 - Mike Love, Calif, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
- 1942 - Hughie Flint, London England, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band)
- 1943 - Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
- 1943 - David Cronenberg, Toronto Ontario, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood)
- 1944 - Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
- 1944 - David Costell, Pitts, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
- 1944 - Davld Costell, rocker
- 1944 - Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
- 1944 - Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist (Graceland)
- 1944 - Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
- 1945 - Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System)
- 1945 - Tracy Smith, runner
- 1946 - Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
- 1946 - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
- 1946 - Howard Scott, San Pedro Cal, rock guitarist/vocalist (War, Cisco Kid)
- 1947 - David Colley, cricketer (NSW quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972)
- 1947 - Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
- 1947 - Ry[land] Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
- 1947 - Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
- 1947 - Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
- 1949 - John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
- 1953 - Colin Croft, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler 1977-82)
- 1953 - Judi Spiers, TV presenter
- 1954 - Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
- 1955 - Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
- 1955 - Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live)
- 1955 - Mohsin Khan, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)
- 1956 - Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
- 1957 - Park Overall, Tenn, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning)
- 1958 - Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
- 1959 - Eliot Teltscher, Calif, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
- 1959 - Harold Baines, Easton MD, outfielder (Chic White Sox, Texas Rangers)
- 1960 - Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
- 1961 - Craig Ludwig, Rhinelander, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
- 1961 - Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
- 1961 - John Melendez, jockey
- 1961 - Terry Cummings, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks, Phila 76ers)
- 1962 - Igor Aleinikov, film Maker
- 1962 - Jimmy Baio, Bkln, actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps)
- 1962 - Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
- 1962 - Terrence Trent D'Arby, NYC, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
- 1963 - Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
- 1963 - Don Simington, jockey
- 1964 - Alison Johnson, Tustin CA, WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993)
- 1964 - Rockwell, [Kennedy Gordy], Det MI, rock vocalist (Someone Watching Me)
- 1964 - Ron Hall, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
- 1965 - Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)
- 1966 - Chris Bruno, actor (Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World)
- 1966 - Karen Weiss, St Paul MN, LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th)
- 1967 - Kirk Scrafford, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
- 1968 - John Tardy, US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot)
- 1968 - Rob Anderson, Kamloops BC, Canadian Tour golfer (BC Amateur-1990, 92)
- 1968 - Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys)
- 1969 - Louis Riddick, NFL safety (Cleve Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
- 1970 - Chris Dalman, NFL guard/center (SF 49ers)
- 1970 - Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro
- 1970 - Eric Castle, NFL free safety (SD Chargers)
- 1970 - Paul Kruse, Merritt, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
- 1971 - Patrick Reidy, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
- 1971 - Reyna Royo, Miss Universe-Panama (1996)
- 1971 - Robbie Pratt, jockey
- 1972 - Casey Cristin Mizell, Miss USA-South Carolina (1997)
- 1972 - David Rhodes, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
- 1972 - Filip Dewulf, Belgium, tennis star
- 1972 - Oliver Gibson, NFL defensive tackle (Pitts Steelers)
- 1972 - Steve Danielson, Honolulu, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
- 1973 - Franca Fehlauer, Hamburg Germany, golfer (Belgian Intl Jr champ 1991)
- 1974 - Imad Baba, Humble Tx, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
- 1975 - Cornell Brown, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
- 1976 - Laurent Gras, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
- 1980 - Deidra Graham, Salt Lake City Utah, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
- 1986 - Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
- 1989 - Caitlin Wachs, actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
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