Elizabeth I (England) 1533, Michael DeBakey 1908 , Al Caiola 1920
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) 1936 - Singer, Richard Roundtree 1942, Gloria Gaynor 1949
Susan Blakely 1950, Julie Kavner 1951, Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) 1951
1812 - Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I at the battle of Borodino.
1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.
1901 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China ending the Peace of Beijing.
1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.
1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.
1966 - The final episode of the original "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV.
1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1977 - The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter and General Omar Torrijos Herrera. The treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal's waterway to Panama in the year 2000.
1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.
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