This Day In History
- 1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
- 1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean.
- 1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
- 1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)
- 1890 A U.S. National Park was established in Central California. It was called Sequoia National Park after the giant redwood trees that grow there.
- 1890 Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.
- 1897 Author William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Miss.
- 1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 1992 A judge in Orlando, Fla., ruled in favor of Gregory Kingsley, a 12-year-old boy seeking a ''divorce'' from his biological parents.
- 2001 Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
- 2001 Michael Jordan announced he was returning to basketball with the NBA's Washington Wizards.
- 2003 France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from the summer heat wave.
- 1897 William (Cuthbert) Faulkner (Nobel Prize-winning writer [1949])
- 1931 Barbara (Ann) Walters (broadcaster)
- 1944 Michael Douglas (Academy Award-winning actor)
- 1947 Cheryl Tiegs (model; author)
- 1949 Anson Williams (Heimlick) (actor: Happy Days)
- 1951 Mark Hamill (actor: Star Wars)
- 1952 Christopher Reeve (actor: Superman series); champion of people with paralytic injuries; died Oct 10, 2004)
- 1961 Heather Locklear (actress)
- 1968 Will Smith (actor)
- 1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress)
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