1787: 1st Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
1789: First U.S. president elected: George Washington
1861: Seven southern states start drafting a new constitution for the Confederate States of America;
1938: Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
1941: United Service Organization (USO) founded
1974: Patty Hearst kidnapped
1975: Margaret Thatcher becomes PM of Great Britain.
1987: Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
1993: Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1802: Mark Hopkins (educator: Williams College president: U.S. President Garfield said, "All that is needed for a superior education is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.")
1902: Charles Lindbergh (Lucky Lindy) (aviator: First to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean: flew The Spirit of St. Louis from NY to Paris [May 1927]; a major name in politics and business)
1904: MacKinlay Kantor (Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Andersonville, [1956]; Long Remember, Gettysburg, Signal Thirty-Two)
1905: Eddie Foy Jr. (actor: Yankee Doodle Dandy, Bells Are Ringing, The Pajama Game, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Four Jacks and a Jill)
1912: James Craig (Meador) (actor: The Devil's Brigade, The Human Comedy)
1912: Byron Nelson (golfer: Masters Champion [1937 & 1942], U.S. Open Champion [1939], PGA Champion [1940 & 1945]; PGA record for most wins in a season [18 tournaments in 1945])
1915: William Talman (actor: Armored Car Robbery, The Hitch-Hiker, One Minute to Zero)
1918: Ida Lupino (actress: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, On Dangerous Ground, My Boys Are Good Boys; director: The Bigamist, The Hitch-Hiker, The Trouble with Angels)
1918: Norman Wisdom (comedian, actor: The Night They Raided Minsky's)
1921: Betty Friedan (Goldstein) (feminist author: The Feminine Mystique; founder of the National Organization for Women [NOW])
1923: Conrad Bain (actor: Different Strokes, Postcards from the Edge, Bananas)
1929: Neil Johnston (Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Warriors center [1951-1959], coach [1960]; 4-time, NBA all-star)
1939: John Schuck, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yoyo)
1941: John Steel (singer, musician: drummer: group: Animals: Baby Let Me Take You Home, House of the Rising Sun)
1943: Cheryl Miller (actress: Mountain Man, Dr. Death Seeker of Souls)
1944: Florence LaRue (Gordon) (singer: group: The Fifth Dimension: Up, Up and Away, Stoned Soul Picnic, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Wedding Bell Blues, One Less Bell to Answer)
1945: David Brenner (comedian, talk-show host: The David Brenner Show, Nightlife)
1948: Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier) (singer: I'm Eighteen, School's Out, You and Me, No More Mr. Nice Guy)
1950: Pamela Franklin (actress: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Flipper's New Adventure, David Copperfield, Eleanor and Franklin)
1966: Gilbert H Grosvenor, president Natl Geographic Society, dies at 90
1983: Karen Carpenter, rock drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32
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