W.E.B. Du Bois(founder of the Niagara Movement, which eventually merged with the NAACP)β
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry(actress and producer)β
Patricia Richardson(actress)β
Josh Gad(actor)β
Dakota Fanning(actress)β
Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary(daughter of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria; first royal birth in 30 years)β
Died
John Quincy Adams(6th U.S. president)β
Melvin Franklin(Motown singer)β
Gordon Matthews(inventor of voicemail)β
Charlie Fox(1971 manager of the year with the San Francisco Giants and spent a half-century in baseball as an executive, manager, coach, and scout)β
Don Cornell(big band singer)β
Events
Cato Street Conspiracy foiledβ
The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texasβ
Liberty Bell developed its final irreparable crack after tolling for Washington’s birthday celebrationβ
Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfieldβ
First powered flight in Canada (by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy in Silver Dart) took place in Baddeck, Nova Scotiaβ
USS Osmond Ingram, first U.S. naval vessel named for an enlisted man, was launched
β
Federal Radio Commission establishedβ
U.S. rocket mail flight across Greenwood Lake, New York, to New Jerseyβ
Song As Time Goes By, from movie Casablanca, copyrightedβ
The most memorable WW II photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal of members of the 5th Division of the U.S. Marines planting an American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japanβ
The existence of Dolly the sheep, the first successful cloned mammal, was announcedβ
Chloe Hegland kept soccer ball aloft with 163 touches in 30 secondsβ
Weather
Blizzard stranded 750 motorists in the Sierra Nevada region of Californiaβ