Peter Ustinov(actor, playwright, novelist, & director)–
Art James(television game show host and announcer)–
Richard Griffiths(actor)–
James Noble(actor)–
Peggy Fortnum(illustrator)–
Events
Cat eating condemned by England’s Richard II –
The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the U.S. –
First world weightlifting championships held in London –
Emma Goldman gave a shocking speech (on contraception) to an audience in NYC. She was arrested and given a choice of paying a $100 fine or going to jail for 15 days. She chose jail –
Mary Pickford married Douglas Fairbanks –
U.S. and U.N. officials signed an agreement permitting the U.N. to issue its own postage stamps –
Tsunami struck Port Alberni, British Columbia –
The rock musical Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York City –
Basketball’s Wilt Chamberlain played his last professional game. In 14 years, 1,045 games, he never fouled out of a game –
Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone, won the Academy Award for Best Picture –
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in southeastern PA seriously malfunctioned, raising fears of a meltdown of the reactor’s core, causing the evacuation of thousands and creating widespread concern about the safety of such facilities –
El Chichon volcano in Mexico began series of eruptions, killing and injuring hundreds –
Mt. Kilauea, Hawaii, erupted –
Russian President Boris Yeltsin claimed victory after surviving attempts by the Russian Congress to depose him –
A major earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island –
Around 6:15 a.m. EDT, a fireball was seen in the northeastern United States –
Weather
The Ottauquechee River reached its highest level since 1869 at Woodstock, Vermont –
The earliest ice out of Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., on record –
