John Hanson 1721
Thomas Jefferson (U.S.) 1743
Frank W. Woolworth 1852
Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker) 1866
Olga Rudge 1895
Alfred Butts 1899
Howard Keel 1919
Madalyn O'Hair 1919
Bud Freeman 1906
Samuel Beckett 1906
Eudora Welty 1909
Stanley Donen 1924
Julius Irving 1925
Don Adams 1926
Teddy Charles 1928
Dan Gurney 1931
Lyle Waggoner 1935
Edward Fox 1937
Lanford Wilson 1937
Paul Sorvino 1939
Lester Chambers 1940
Bill Conti 1942
Brian Pendleton (The Pretty Things) 1944
Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) 1944
Lowell George (Little Feat) 1945
Tony Dow 1945
Al Green 1946
Roy Loney (Flamin' Groovies) 1946
Ron Perlman 1950
Peabo Bryson 1951
Max Weinberg (E Street Band) 1951
Jimmy Destri (Blondie) 1954
Sam Bush 1957
Gary Kroeger 1957
Sandra Santiago 1957
Joey Mazzola (Sponge) 1961
Hillel Slovak (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
Jane Leeves 1963
Garry Kasparov 1963
Page Hannah 1964
Lisa Unbarger (Toadies) 1965
Rick Schroder 1970
Jonathan Brandis 1976
Courtney Peldon 1981
1598 - King Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes which granted political rights to French Protestant Huguenots.
1759 - The French defeated the European allies in Battle of Bergen.
1775 - Lord North extended the New England Restraining Act to South, Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act prohibited trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.
1782 - Washington, NC, was incorporated as the first town to be named for George Washington.
1796 - The first known elephant to arrive in the United States from Bengal, India.
1808 - William "Juda" Henry Lane perfected the tap dance.
1829 - The English Parliament granted freedom of religion to Catholics.
1849 - The Hungarian Republic was proclaimed.
1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
1870 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City.
1916 - The first hybrid, seed corn was purchased for 15-cents a bushel by Samuel Ramsay.
1919 - British forces killed hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.
1933 - The first flight over Mount Everest was completed by Lord Clydesdale.
1941 - German troops captured Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.
1945 - Vienna fell to Soviet troops.
1949 - Philip S. Hench and associates announced that cortizone was an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
1954 - Hank Aaron debuted with the Milwaukee Braves.
1959 - A Vatican edict prohibited Roman Catholics from voting for Communists.
1960 - The first navigational satellite was launched into Earth's orbit.
1961 - The U.N. General Assembly condemned South Africa due to apartheid.
1962 - In the U.S., major steel companies rescinded announced price increases. The John F. Kennedy administration had been applying pressure against the price increases.
1963 - Pete Rose got his first major league hit for the Cincinnati Reds.
1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first black to win an Oscar for best actor. It was for his role in the movie "Lilies of the Field."
1970 - An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing.
1972 - The first strike in the history of major league baseball ended. Players had walked off the field 13 days earlier.
1976 - The U.S. Federal Reserve introduced $2 bicentennial notes.
1979 - The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ended after 101 hours.
1981 - Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy." Cooke relinquished the prize two days later after admitting she had fabricated the story.
1984 - U.S. President Reagan sent emergency military aid to El Salvador without congressional approval.
1984 - Christopher Walker was killed in a fight with police in New Hampshire. Walker was wanted as a suspect in the kidnappings of 11 young women in several states.
1990 - The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. The Soviets had previously blamed the massacre on the Nazis.
1997 - Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament at the age of 21. He also set a record when he finished at 18 under par.
1998 - NationsBank and BankAmerica announced a $62.5 billion merger, creating the country's first coast-to-coast bank.
1998 - Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, gave natural birth to a healthy baby lamb.
1999 - Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk's assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes" in 1998.
2000 - Richard Gordon was charged with trying to extort $250,000 from Louie Anderson in exchange for not telling the tabloid media about Anderson once asking him for sex. Gordon was held without bail pending a court hearing.
2000 - It was announced that 69 people had died when the Arlahada, a Philippine ferry, capsized. 70 people were rescued.
2002 - Twenty-five Hindus were killed and about 30 were wounded when grenades were thrown by suspected Islamic guerrillas near Jammu-Kashir.
2002 - Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, resigned a day after taking office. Thousands of protesters had supported over the ousting of president Hugo Chavez.
