Birth anniversaries of Louis L’Amour (1908-88) and Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers (1887-1961).
In 1941, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, better known as the Tuskegee Airmen, was activated.
Happy Birthday! Andrew Lloyd Webber, William Shatner, M. Emmet Walsh
1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.
1765 - The Stamp Act was passed. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists. It was repealed on March 17, 1766.
1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.
1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.
1941 - The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began operations.
1954 - The first shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan.
1960 - A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes obtained a patent for the laser. It was the first patent for any laser.
1978 - Karl Wallenda, of the Flying Wallendas, fell to his death while walking a cable strung between to hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1987 - A barge loaded with 32,000 tons of refuse left Islip, NY, to find a place to unload. After being refused by several states and three countries space was found back in Islip.
1989 - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee reported the class gap was widening.
1990 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Captain Hazelwood not guilty in the Valdez oil spill.
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