Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg, Norwegian composer, died, 1907
IMSAI closed their doors, 1979
First athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals (Mark Spitz), 1972
Herve Villechaize, actor, died, 1993
Natalia Makarova, ballerina, defected from Russia to England, 1970
Geronimo (Goyathlay) surrendered, 1886
First preliminary model of the Citroen Deux Chevaux was unveiled, 1936
Ford Motor Co. introduced the Edsel, 1957
First “newsboy” in US hired (Barney Flaherty, ten years old), 1833
Kodak camera patented (George Eastman), 1888
Irene Marie Dunne (Dunn), actress (“I Remember Mama”), died, 1990
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, missionary, died, 1965
“Swing Time,” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released, 1936
Gert Frobe (Karl-Gerhard Frobe), actor, died, 1988
Abbie Hoffman, radical activist, surrendered to New York authorities, 1980
Island of Manhattan discovered (Henry Hudson), 1609
Descendants of 1918 world champion Red Sox finally receive World Series “medals”, 1993
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter, died, 1910
First parade with marching music supplied by transistor radios (Streamwood, Illinois), 1977
Electric lights introduced to New York (Thomas Edison), 1882
Los Angeles (El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula) founded, 1781
First passage of the McClure Strait (Nortwest Passage), 1954