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1777 USA - The Congress during the American Revolution adopted a new flag. It stated that "the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white" and that "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." The flag became known as the "Stars and Stripes".
1789 ENGLISH - HMS Bounty mutiny survivors, Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reached Timor in the East Indies, seven weeks after being abandoned in an open boat. It is estimated they travelled 4,000 miles.
1846 USA - American settlers proclaimed the short-lived California Republic and California's Bear Flag revolt against the Mexico began.
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1928 AUTOMOBILES - Duray, Leon set a world speed record driving a Miller 91 Packard Cable Special. He reached a top speed of 148.173mph, at the Packard Proving Ground in Utica, Michigan.
1951 COMPUTING - The U.S.A. Census Bureau dedicated UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer). It was developed by Presper, J. Eckert and Mauchly, John who also made ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.
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1811 - Stowe,Harriet Beecher
1820 - Bartlett, John
1736 - de Coulomb, Charles-Augustin - Physicist
1820 - Bartlett, John - Editor
1855 - La Follette, Robert Marion
1856 - Markov, Andrey - Mathematician
1864 - Alzheimer, Alois - Psychiatrist and Pathologist
1868 - Landsteiner, Karl - Nobel Prize 1930 - Immunologist and Pathologist
1874 - Bowes, Edward - Radio
19?? - Christell, Andy - Rock Musician
19?? - DeGarmo, Chris - Rock Guitarist
19?? - Rivero, Jorge - Actor
19?? - Lankford, Kim - Actress
19?? - Langschwadt, Rosa - Actress
19?? - Stewart, Trish - Actress
19?? - Bleeth, Yasmine - Actress
1906 - Esmond, Carl - Actor
1906 - Lamb, Gil - Actor
1908 - Trotter, John Scott - Orchestra Leader
1909 - Ives, Burl - Folk Singer, Actor
1910 - Kempe, Rudolf - Conductor
1917 - La Rue, Lash - Actor
1918 - McGuire, Dorothy - Actress
1919 - Wanamaker, Sam - Actor
1921 - Barry, Gene - Actor
1925 - Salinger, Pierre - Newsman (ABC) and Press Secretary (John Kennedy)
1928 - Guevara, Ernesto (Che)
1929 - Coleman, Cy [Seymour Kaufman] - Songwriter
1931 - Gibbs, Marla - Actress
1933 - Kosinski, Jerzy - Author
1940 - Davidson, Ben - Actor
1940 - Bannon, Jack - Actor
1943 - Winwood, Muff Mervyn - Singer
1946 - McAllister, Ralph - Newspaper Publisher
1946 - Trump, Donald
1949 - Frankston, Bob - Programmer (VisiCalc)
1949 - Firestone, Rochelle - Actress
1952 - Mekka, Eddie - Actor
1954 - Patton, Will - Actor
1958 - Persson, Carina Playmate (August, 1983)
1958 - Wisc, Eric Heiden Olympic Speed Skater - 1980
1961 - O'Dowd, "Boy George" Rock Musician (Culture Club)
1969 - Graf, Steffi
1970 - Eden, Simone Fleurice (Feb 1989 Playmate)
2160 - Scott (Scottie),Montgomery Edward - fictional engineer in TV series Star Trek.
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1996 - Fitzgerald, Ella Singer
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1996 - Fitzgerald, Ella the great Jazz singer dies at the age of 79.
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1863 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - The Battle of Second Winchester is lost by a Union garrison to the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1940 WORLD WAR II - German troups began to enter Paris and its occupation began.
1940 WORLD WAR II - President Roosevelt froze the American assets of the Axis powers, Germany and Italy.
1954 COLD WAR - The USA undertook its first '10 minute' mock nuclear attack and a civil defense simulation. It was estimated over 12 million people would have died. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also participated.
1982 FALKLAND WAR - The Falkland Islands War ends after six weeks of conflict with Argentina surrendering to Great Britain. The Falkland Islands are located about 300 miles off Argentina.
1985 TERRORISM - TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked by the Shiite Hezbollah. They forced the plane to land at Beirut Airport in Lebanon. The terrorists murdered Navy diver Robert Stethem and the ordeal lasted 17 days.
1968 VIETNAM - Dr. Benjamin Spock and Chaplain William Sloane Coffin (Yale University Chaplain) were convicted of conspiring to aid, abet, and counsel draft registrants to violate the Selective Service Act.
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