Sir William Golding 1911, Adam West 1928 - Actor (TV: "Batman"), Mike Royko 1932
David McCallum 1933, Bill Medley 1940 - Singer (Righteous Brothers), "Mama" Cass Elliott (The Mamas and Papas) 1943
Leslie "Twiggy" Hornby 1949 - Model, Joan Lunden 1951 - TV personality, Jimmy Fallon 1974 - Talk show host, comedian
1777 - The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
1876 - Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.
1891 - "The Merchant of Venice" was performed for the first time at Manchester.
1942 - The first advertisement to announce Little Golden Books appeared in Publishers Weekly.
1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.
1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.
1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use :-) in an online message.
1984 - China and Britain completed a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.
1994 - U.S. troops entered Haiti peacefully to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - The U.S. Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
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