Martin Kamen(co-discovered the radioactive isotope carbo-14)β
Dean Jones(actor
)β
Jimmy Buffet(singer)β
Born
Chester Harding(painter)β
James Gordon Bennet(founder of New York Herald)β
Engelbert Humperdinck(composer)β
James J. Corbett(boxer)β
Edgar Rice Burroughs(writer; Tarzan author)β
Francis William Aston(chemist, discovered isotopes)β
Don Wilson(entertainer)β
Rocky Marciano(boxer)β
Conway Twitty(country music singer)β
Seiji Ozawa(orchestra conductor)β
Lily Tomlin(actress)β
Leonard Slatkin(conductor)β
Barry Gibb(singer, member of the Bee Gees)β
Gloria Estefan(musician)β
J. D. Fortune(singer)β
Scott Speedman(actor)β
Zendaya(actress and singer)β
Events
Deborah Read Rogers became the common-law wife of Ben Franklinβ
Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrived at Walla Walla, Washingtonβ
At a convention of nondrinkers in Chicago the Prohibition Party is bornβ
The first woman, Miss Emma Nutt, was hired by the Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Before Miss Nutt’s employment, young men served as operators, but their rudeness to telephone subscribers caused the company owners to replace them with womenβ
Saskatchewan became a province of Canadaβ
Alberta became a province of Canadaβ
The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden in Ohioβ
Sundance Fire intensified, Idahoβ
Bobby Fischer became the first American to hold the world chess title by defeating Soviet player, Boris Spasskyβ
Remains of the R.M.S. Titanic luxury liner discovered 12,400β deep, 230 miles south of Nova Scotiaβ
A 23-inch Arctic grayling was caught in Wolf Lake, Manitobaβ
Weather
A trace of snow fell at Long Falls Dam in Maineβ
Mount Washington in New Hampshire received about one-half inch of snowβ