Joe Barbera(half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that made cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, and the Flintstones)β
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry(actress and producer)β
Connie Hines(actress)β
Zsa Zsa Gabor(actress and socialite)β
Events
The Great Comet reached perihelionβ
New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitutionβ
John William Draper took the first photo of the Moonβ
The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting slavery, went into effectβ
National Anti-Saloon League was foundedβ
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson married Edith B. Galt, a descendent of Pocahontasβ
Civil rights activist Rosa McCauley married Raymond Parksβ
Giant panda, Basi, celebrated her 25th birthday at China’s Fuzhou Zoo. (She far surpassed the normal panda life expectancy of 12 years!)β
Weather
Central Park in New York City experienced a record low temperature of 10 degrees below zero Fβ
A sudden gale of wind of almost cyclonic force blew through Howe, Indiana, and caused snowballs to form spontaneously and roll along the ground like tumbleweedsβ
Freezing rain in the Memphis, Tennessee, area caused 170 evening auto accidentsβ