Henry John Heinz(founder of the H. J. Heinz Company)–
Billie Burke(actress)–
William Lear(inventor)–
Rita Hayworth(actress)–
Harry Blackstone Jr.(magician)–
Frank Sinatra(singer & actor)–
Robert Stack(actor)–
Anna Lee(actress whose career in films and television spanned nearly 70 years)–
Stanley Kunitz(United States poet laureate 2000-01, Pulitzer Prize winner)–
B. B. King(blues legend)–
Tim Conway(comedian & actor)–
Grumpy Cat(feline celebrity with a grumpy expression)–
Events
Jamestown, Virginia, became the first permanent British settlement in North America –
4-year-old Louis-Dieudonné (Louis XIV) became King of France
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Lewis and Clark’s expedition left St. Louis for the West. The Corps of Discovery, as it was later to be called, originally included approximately 45 people. –
34 cavalry disembarked at Indianola, Texas –
Copyright registered for J. Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever” march” –
The Sparrow and the Hawk, a serial for kids, was broadcast for the first time over CBS radio –
President Eisenhower broke ground for the Lincoln Center –
First manned U.S. space station launched –
The final episode of Seinfeld aired –
Statue honoring the women athletes of the All-American Professional Baseball League installed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York –
Racehorse Winning Brew ran 43.97 mph –
Racehorse Winning Brew ran a quarter mile in 20.57 seconds at the Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania –
Weather
Ten degrees below zero F at Climax, Colorado –
The fourth-longest dry spell in Texas ended with 0.01 inch of rain in Brownsville –
