Otto Von Bismarck 1815, Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 - Composer, musician, Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera")
Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery 1885 - Actor ("The Champ", "The Last of the Mohicans"), William Manchester 1922 - Writer, Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher, Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress, Samuel Alito 1950 - U.S. Supreme Court justice
1578 - William Harvey of England discovered blood circulation.
1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$" symbol.
1826 - Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.
1924 - Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch."
1938 - The first commercially successful fluorescent lamps were introduced.
1938 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, NY.
1946 - Weight Watchers was formed.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift began.
1949 - "Happy Pappy" premiered. It was the first all-black-cast variety show.
1954 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was formed in Colorado.
1979 - Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.
1982 - The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.
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