Peter Jones(first native Methodist missionary to Ojibwa)β
Elizabeth Barrett Browning(poet)β
Fatty Arbuckle(actor)β
Jayne Mansfield(actress)β
Lana Turner(actress)β
Rosemary Clooney(singer)β
Katharine Hepburn(actress)β
Joel Siegel(film critic)β
Born
Dr. William Mayo(surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic)β
Frank Loesser(composer)β
Slim Pickens(actor)β
Harmon Killebrew(baseball player)β
Gary Busey(actor)β
Richard Lewis(comedian & actor)β
Leslie Browne(ballerina)β
Kimberlin Brown(actress)β
Martin Truex Jr.(race car driver)β
Events
Townshend Revenue Acts passed by British parliament, establishing duties on tea, glass, paint, oil, lead, and paper imported into American colonies β
San Francisco was founded β
Last stone placed for second lighthouse to be built at Minot’s Ledge, Massachusetts β
Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, containing prehistoric cliff dwellings, established by an act of Congress β
Bill Haley and His Comets reached the top of the pop music charts with Rock Around the Clockββ β
The Rooms cultural facility opened in St. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador β
Weather
Lake Havasu City, Arizona, had a temperature of 128 degrees F β
Residents in Monticello, Florida, sweltered in record-breaking 109F heat. β
Hurricane Alice dumped 27 inches of rain on the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas β
The Livingston (Alberta) Ranger Station received 44 inches of snow, making the record for the largest summer snowfall recorded in Canada β