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1892 Oliver Hardy Harlem GA, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
1904 Cary Grant England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
1913 Danny Kaye Brooklyn NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show)
1954 Ted BiBiase aka The Million Dollar Man
1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panamá
1896 1st demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York City NY
1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1971 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC
1975 "The Jeffersons" spin-off from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1
1981 Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1996 Minnesota Fats [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Oliver Hardy
