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On This Day
In 1781, the city of Los Angeles (called at the time the Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) was founded.
In 1884, the U.K. stopped its policy of shipping convicts to Australia.
In 1886, Geronimo surrendered after 30 years of resistance.
In 1949, white racist/anti-Semite/anti-Communist crowds started a riot outside of a Paul Robeson concert in Westchester County, NY.
In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent Central High School from being integrated.
In 1957, Ford introduced the Edsel.
In 1972, Mark Spitz broke the Olympic record, becoming the first athlete to win 7 gold medals in a single Games.
In 2007, Mattel toy company issued their third recall of the month for toys produced in China, due to unsafe levels of lead.
Born on This Day
1383 – Antipope Felix V (d. 1451)
1629 - Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter (d. 1700)
1717 – Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783)
1719 - Johann Conrad Seekatz, German painter (d. 1768)
1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer, historian, and diplomat (d. 1848)
1796 - Peter Fendi, Viennese painter, engraver, and lithographer (d. 1842)
1803 – Sarah Childress Polk, American wife of James K. Polk, 12th First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
1841 – Albert Joseph Moore, English painter (d. 1893)
1846 – Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition (d. 1912)
1848 – Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925)
1848 - Gustav Bauernfeind, German orientalist painter (d. 1904)
1852 - Eilif Peterssen, Norwegian painter (d. 1928)
1883 - Bela Czobel, Hungarian painter (d. 1976)
1888 - Louise Glaum, silent film star (d. 1970)
1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974)
1896 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)
1900 - George Hoyningen-Huene, Russian-born U.S. fashion photographer (d. 1968)
1905 – Mary Renault, English novelist (d. 1983)
1913 – Mickey Cohen, American mobster (d. 1976)
1920 – Craig Claiborne, American restaurant critic and food journalist (d. 2000)
1924 – Joan Aiken, English author (d. 2004)
1928 – Dick York, American actor (d. 1992) See Tipple Jar
1931 – Jack Boucher, American photographer (d. 2012)
1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer
1942 – Merald "Bubba" Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & The Pips)
1942 – Bob Filner, serial harasser
1945 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (d. 1994) Much esteemed by fellow guitarist, largely unknown otherwise
1946 – Gary Duncan, American guitarist (The Brogues and Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1951 – Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer (The Pretenders)
1955 – Brian Schweitzer, American politician, 23rd Governor of Montana
1958 – George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen, Firehose, The Reactionaries, and Unknown Instructors)
1968 – Mike Piazza, American baseball player
1971 – Ione Skye, British-born actress
1981 – Beyoncé Knowles, African-American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress (Destiny's Child)
Died on This Day
1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
1667 - Frans Francken III, Flemish painter (b. 1607)
1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
1852 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
1909 – Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
1921 - Wilhelm Kotarbinski, Russian painter (b. 1849)
1965 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
1985 - Isabel Jeans, British actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich) (b. 1891)
1990 – Irene Dunne, American actress (b. 1898)
1993 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)
1995 – William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (b. 1962)
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Newspaper Carrier Day
National Macadamia Nut Day
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