This Day In History
- 1812 The USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
- 1848 The first report of the California gold strike was published in the "New York Herald" newspaper.
- 1856 Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY patented his process for condensed milk.
- 1909 The first race was run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. It wasn’t a brick track yet. It started as a crushed stone and tar track.
- 1929 The comedy ''Amos 'n' Andy'' made its network radio debut on NBC.
- 1940 The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1 to Orville Wright.
- 1942 About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering about 50 percent casualties.
- 1955 Severe flooding in the Northeast caused by the remnants of Hurricane Diane claimed some 200 lives.
- 1960 The Russians sent two dogs into earth orbit in a satellite.
- 1960 A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.
- 1974 U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was shot and killed at the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.
- 1976 President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Kansas City.
- 1977 Comedian Groucho Marx died at age 86.
- 1994 President Bill Clinton halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.
- 1996 A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes.
- 2002 A Russian military helicopter crashed after being shot down by rebels in Chechnya, killing 119 people.
- 2003 A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
- 1870 Bernard (Mannes) Baruch (financier; chairman of War Industries Board [WWI]; representative: UN Atomic Energy Commission; presidential adviser; died June 20, 1965)
- 1871 Orville Wright (aviator: one of the Wright Brothers: pioneers in aviation; died Jan 30, 1948)
- 1883 Coco (Gabriel Bonheur) Chanel (fashion designer; perfume creator: Chanel #5; died Jan 10 1971)
- 1902 Ogden Nash (poet: famous for his strange but funny rhymes of nonsense: “Undeniably brash Was young Ogden Nash Whose notable verse Was admirably terse And written with panache.”; writer: The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse, You Can't Get There from Here; died May 19, 1971)
- 1919 Malcolm Forbes Sr. (publishing magnate: Forbes magazine; died Feb 24, 1990)
- 1921 Gene (Eugene Wesley) Roddenberry (creator, producer: Star Trek; writer: Have Gun Will Travel; died Oct 24, 1991)
- 1931 Willie Shoemaker (jockey: holds record for most wins in a career: 8,833 out of 40,350 mounts; died Oct 12, 2003)
- 1938 Diana Muldaur (actress: A Year in the Life, The Tony Randall Show, The Survivors, Star Trek: The Next Generation, McCloud, L.A. Law, Born Free)
- 1946 William (Jefferson) Clinton (42nd U.S. President [1993- ]; married to Hillary Rodham [one daughter: Chelsea]; nickname: Bill)
- 1947 Gerald McRaney (actor: Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Murder by Moonlight, Blind Vengeance, Take Me Home: The John Denver Story)
- 1948 Tipper (Mary) Gore (Aitcheson) (author: Raising PG Kids in an X-rated Society; wife of U.S. Vice President Al Gore)
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