Michiaki Takahashi(virologist best know for inventing first chickenpox vaccine
)–
Rene Russo(actress)–
Richard Karn(actor, game show host)–
Michael Jordan(basketball player)–
Jerry O'Connell(actor)–
Jason Ritter(actor)–
Paris Hilton(heiress)–
Ed Sheeran(musician)–
Died
Geronimo(Chiricahua Apache leader)–
Wilfred Laurier(8th Prime Minister of Canada)–
Lee Strasberg(actor and director)–
Thelonious Monk(jazz pianist)–
Rush Limbaugh(American radio personality and writer)–
Events
Myles Standish appointed commander of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts –
Tie broken: Thomas Jefferson to be U.S. president; Aaron Burr, Vice President –
Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patented draisine (bicycle precursor) –
Confederate H. L. Hunley was first submarine to sink a warship (USS Housatonic) –
Columbia, South Carolina, burned by Union Army (U.S. Civil War) –
First sardines canned in Maine –
The National Congress of Mothers, later known as the PTA, founded –
Marcel Duchamp’s painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, outraged viewers –
First publication of Newsweek magazine –
Elvis Presley awarded his first gold album for Elvis”“ –
9-pound 6-ounce chain pickerel caught near Homerville, Georgia –
Weather
McIntosh, South Dakota, recorded a low temperature of -58 degrees F –
The temperature dipped to -60F in Esker, Labrador
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Record low of 60 degrees below zero F, Labrador –
Blizzard dumped more snow in Boston than any other storm in the state’s history— including the Blizzard of 1978—Logan International Airport measured 27.5 inches –
