The Viscount Willingdon(Canadian Governor General 1926-1931)β
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.(oldest child of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy; brother of President John F. Kennedy)β
Ian Fleming(writer, creator of Agent 007 James Bond)β
Henry Fonda(actor)β
Loretta Young(actress)β
Enos "Country" Slaughter(baseball player)β
Ed Headrick(designed the frisbee)β
Merv Griffin(entertainer)β
Lauren Bacall(actress)β
Born
Christy Mathewson(baseball hall-of-famer)β
Cecil B. DeMille(director)β
Cantinflas(aka Mario Moreno Reyes [actor])β
George Hamilton(actor)β
Ann M. Martin(author)β
Bruce Greenwood(actor)β
Peter Krause(actor)β
Michael Ian Black(comedian & actor)β
Pete Sampras(tennis player)β
Matt Clement(baseball player)β
Casey Affleck(actor)β
Cindy Klassen(Olympic speed skater; only Canadian Olympian to win five medals in a single Olympic games)β
Events
Philip, chief of the Wampanog tribe, was killed by a renegade Indian of his own tribe, bringing to an end the first and bloodiest war between American Indians and white settlers of New England, a war that had raged for nearly two years and was known as King Philip’s Warβ
Isaac Singer received a patent for the continuous-stitch sewing machineβ
Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonographβ
Marjorie Gestring, at age 13, won an Olympic gold medal for springboard divingβ
Actor William Shatner married Gloria Randβ
The first successful communications satellite, Echo I, was launchedβ
Space shuttle Enterprise completed its first free-flight testβ
The IBM PC was introducedβ
Patent issued for therapeutic horseshoeβ
Cathy Gerring won the Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic, in Vermontβ
Fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson found Tyrannosaurus rex bones near Faith, South Dakotaβ
232-day baseball strike began, causing World Series to be canceledβ
Weather
A Rhode Island hurricane prevented a major British-French sea battleβ
1.8 inches of rain fell in San Diego, Californiaβ
Record temperature of 120 degrees F, Seymour, Texasβ