Birthdays
1905 Greta Garbo
1924 J. D. Tippit, American police officer murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald
1933 Scotty Bowman,93 yrs old, Holds the record for most wins in NHL history with 1,244 regular season wins and 223 Stanley Cup playoff wins.
Combined, as a player, coach, and executive, he has won 13 Stanley Cups.
1951 Darryl Stingley, NFL football wide receiver
1952 Rick Pitino, basketball coach
1959 Ryne Sandberg
1961 James Gandolfini, "Soprano's"
Events
1755 Fort Ticonderoga in New York opens
1793 US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
1809 The Royal Opera House opens in London
1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after five days, destroys 75% of the city and kills 12,000 people
1837 Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young co-found a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" in New York City, renamed in 1853 as "Tiffany & Co."
1842 First edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is published
1851 First edition of The New York Times is published for 2 cents a copy - that's about all it's worth today
1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall Street and the start of the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression
1885 Riots break out in Montreal, Canada, to protest against mandatory smallpox vaccinations
1891 The Seneca tribe gives Harriet Maxwell Converse an honorary position as chief, making her the first white woman to become a Native American chief - what in the hell is the world coming to
1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong
1919 Hurricane tides reach 16 feet above normal drowning 280 people along US Gulf Coast
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, killing 250 people
1927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on air with 18 stations and WOR as the New York City affiliate
1938 The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 2-0
1944 WWII: Eindhoven, Netherlands, is freed by American and British troops (Liberation Day)
1947 US Air Force is created as a separate military service with the passing of the National Security Act
1947 US Department of Defense first day of operation
1947 Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July
1951 "A Streetcar Named Desire," a film directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh
1964 TV sitcom series "The Addams Family," starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy, premieres on ABC and runs for two seasons
1965 TV sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie," starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC
1965 Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spy spoof sitcom "Get Smart" starring Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt, debuts on NBC-TV
1974 Hurricane Fifi hits the coast of Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing about 5,000 people
1975 American publishing heiress-turned-bank robber Patty Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco, California
1976 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing, China
1976 MLB Cleveland Indians player-manager Frank Robinson's last game as a player
1977 Ted Turner's Courageous (US) sweeps Alan Bond's Australia 4-0 in the 24th America's Cup
1984 Tigers clinch the AL East championship after spending the entire year in first place
1997 CNN founder Ted Turner pledges to donate $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity the United Nations Foundation
2009 Final episode of soap opera "Guiding Light" is broadcast, ending a 72-year run on radio and television
