volksdragon | Wikipedia Birthday Meme (from pantsie)

St. Hilarius. I love it. :)

Oh yeah, and I got Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster AND Allison Janey. I win.

* 461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.
* 1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
* 1863 - American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
* 1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Grosouthwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
* 1916 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers.)
* 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
* 1944 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
* 1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.
* 1959 - Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
* 1961 - Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.
* 1967 - The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
* 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
* 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
* 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
* 1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
* 1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the “Girl You Know It’s True” album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
* 1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive.
* 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.
* 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
* 1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

* 2004 - The first movie of Spongebob Squarepants, entitled The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is released in theaters. (Rated PG)

Births

* 1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
* 1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
* 1831 - James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
* 1843 - Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)

* 1897 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
* 1905 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)
* 1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
* 1919 - Alan Young, British-born American actor (Mister Ed)
* 1920 - Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1921 - Roy Campanella, baseball player (d. 1993)
* 1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations
* 1933 - Larry King, American television interviewer
* 1935 - Jack Welch, American businessman
* 1936 - Dick Cavett, American talk show host
* 1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman
* 1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
* 1942 - Sharon Olds, American poet
* 1947 - Bob Boone, baseball player and manager
* 1947 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
* 1949 - Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
* 1951 - Lord Falconer, British lawyer and politician
* 1960 - Elizabeth Hulette, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
* 1960 - Allison Janney, American actress
* 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress
* 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
* 1963 - Terry Farrell, American actress
* 1966 - Gail Devers, American athlete
* 1966 - Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
* 1966 - Jason Scott Lee, American actor
* 1979 - Larry Johnson American football player

Deaths
* 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
* 1772 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
* 1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
* 1883 - William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
* 1887 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859)
* 1897 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
* 1915 - Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b. 1879)
* 1988 - Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis. (b. 1950)
* 1998 - Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)