Henry John Heinz(founder of the H. J. Heinz Company)–
Billie Burke(actress)–
William Lear(inventor)–
Rita Hayworth(actress)–
Harry Blackstone Jr.(magician)–
Frank Sinatra(singer & actor)–
Robert Stack(actor)–
Anna Lee(actress whose career in films and television spanned nearly 70 years)–
Stanley Kunitz(United States poet laureate 2000-01, Pulitzer Prize winner)–
B. B. King(blues legend)–
Tim Conway(comedian & actor)–
Grumpy Cat(feline celebrity with a grumpy expression)–
Events
Jamestown, Virginia, became the first permanent British settlement in North America–
4-year-old Louis-Dieudonné (Louis XIV) became King of France
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Lewis and Clark’s expedition left St. Louis for the West. The Corps of Discovery, as it was later to be called, originally included approximately 45 people.–
34 cavalry disembarked at Indianola, Texas–
Copyright registered for J. Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever” march”–
The Sparrow and the Hawk, a serial for kids, was broadcast for the first time over CBS radio–
President Eisenhower broke ground for the Lincoln Center–
First manned U.S. space station launched–
The final episode of Seinfeld aired–
Statue honoring the women athletes of the All-American Professional Baseball League installed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York–
Racehorse Winning Brew ran 43.97 mph–
Racehorse Winning Brew ran a quarter mile in 20.57 seconds at the Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania–
Weather
Ten degrees below zero F at Climax, Colorado–
The fourth-longest dry spell in Texas ended with 0.01 inch of rain in Brownsville–
