Henri Philippe Petain 1856, Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress, Jill Ireland 1936
Barbra Streisand 1942 - Michael O'Keefe 1955, Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Brianne Clarkson) 1983 - Singer, first "American Idol" participant to win a Grammy Award
1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain.
1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians.
1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute.
1967 - The newest Greek regime banned miniskirts.
1973 - Albert Sabin reported that herpesviruses were factors in nine kinds of cancer.
2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons.
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