Rod Roddy(the flamboyantly dressed announcer on The Price is Right whose booming voice invited audience members to Come on down!” for nearly 20 years”)–
Betsy Drake(actress)–
Events
Massachusetts Bay Colony, having outlawed Quakers, hung two who defiantly returned to the colony. They were the first Quakers to be hanged in America. –
Harvard expedition observed solar eclipse in British-occupied Penobscot Bay, Maine –
The Treaty of San Lorenzo was signed between the United States and Spain, giving the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi River –
Macy’s Department store opened in N.Y.C. –
U.S. president-to-be Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee –
At 16, Jascha Heifetz made his American debut at Carnegie Hall –
Dupont announced the invention of nylon –
32-pound bull trout caught in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho –
Saturn I first launched –
Last performance of opera singer Beverly Sills –
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in a four-game sweep –
16-foot Burmese python caught in the Florida Everglades –
