Sam Houston 1793 - First President of the Republic of Texas, Dr. Suess (Theodor Seuss Geisel) 1904 - Writer, poet, and cartoonist, Tom Wolfe 1931 - Author
Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 - Former Soviet President, Karen Carpenter 1950 - Singer (The Carpenters), Daniel Craig 1968 - Actor
1807 - The U.S. Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
1836 - Texas declared its independence from Mexico and an ad interim government was formed.
1877 - In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1917 - The Russian Revolution began with Czar Nicholas II abdicating.
1925 - State and federal highway officials developed a nationwide route-numbering system and adopted the familiar U.S. shield-shaped, numbered marker.
1949 - The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, TX. The American plane had completed the first non-stop around-the-world flight.
1998 - The U.N. Security Council endorsed U.N. chief Kofi Annan's deal to open Iraq's presidential palaces to arms inspectors.
2004 - NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.
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