Jamie Farr (1934); Dan Akroyd (1952); Alan Ruck (1956)

1919 - Penny decrease of First Class Postage to three-cents
1874 - Opening of first zoo in US (Philadelphia)

Thurgood Marshall (1908); Imelda Marcos (1931);

1843 - It rains an alligator in Charleston SC
1991 - Riot at a St. Louis Guns N' Roses show

Olivia Munn (1980); Gloria Allred (1941)

1916 - First of four fatalities during the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks
1990- 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity (Florida)

Hiram Walker (1816); Ann Landers (1918)
Independance Day

1827- New York abolishes slavery
1866- Fire destroys Portland, ME, firecracker blamed

Katherine Helmond (1929)

1946- Bikini debuts in Paris

Fred Dryer (1946), Jamie Wyeth (1946)

1699 - Capt. Kidd arrested in Boston
1957- Lennon and McCartney first meet

Pierre Cardin (1922); Billy Campbell (1959) 

1544 (or 1550) - Chocolate arrives in Europe when Maya representatives and Dominican Friars bring gifts to Prince Philip of Spain
1898- US seizes Hawaii
1981- Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman nominated to Supreme Court

Raffi (1948), Wolfgang Puck (1949), Beck (1970)

1796: Issue date stamped on earliest known passport
1977: World's longest -- 100 hrs. -- belly dance

Michael Graves (1934); Richard Roundtree (1942)

1795: US National Debt ($2,024,899) paid off by James Swan
1877: First Wimbledon Championships
1956: Dick Clark first hosts American Bandstand

Unfortunately-named Houston art patron Ima Hogg (1882); David Brinkley (1920)

1990: Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall
1997: RJR Nabisco dumps Joe Camel

E.B. White (1899)

1975: Chinese archaeologists find 6000 buried clay statues of warriors
1981: First woman ordered to pay alimony (Neva Rockefeller)

Julius Caesar (100 BCE)

1774: Carlisle, PA citizens declare their independance
1917: Over a thousand striking miners are kidnapped and deported from Bisbee, AZ (The Bisbee Deportation)
1962: First performance by Rolling Stones

Cheech Marin (1946); Jean Luc Picard (2305)

1917: One of several appearances of Virgin Mary at Fatima
1985: Live Aid held

Frederick Maytag (1857); Missy Gold (1970)

1789: Bastille stormed, French Revolution begins
1832: First mention of opium in US tariff acts; it's exempt from duty
1946: Dr. Spock's childcare book first published
1969: Federal Reserve stops distibuting $500, $1000, $5000 and $10,000 bills

Clive Cussler (1931); Arianna Huffington (1950); Ian Curtis (1956)

1922: Duck-billed platypus first publicly exhibited in US

Roald Amundsen (1872); Will Ferrell (1967)

1956: Last Ringling Bros.,Barnum and Bailey circus to be held under "the big top" (Pittsburgh, PA)
1994: Shoemaker-Levy comet collides with Jupiter

Diahann Carroll (1935); David Hasselhoff (1952)

1959: Tibet abolishes serfdom

Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929)

1968: Intel founded
1994: Crayola announces scented crayons

Edward Degas (1834); Kathleen Turner (1954)

1966: Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow marry

Alexander the Great (356 BCE); Stone Gossard (1966)

1858: Admission first charged at a baseball game (50-cents, New York)
1994: OJ offers $500K reward for info about his wife's killer

Janet Reno (1938); Justin Bartha (1978)

1873: Jesse James and Younger Gang's first train robbery
1984: First documented case of a robot killing a person

Rhys Ifans (1968)

1686: City of Albany (NY) chartered

Martin Gore (1961); Woody Harrelson (1961)

1966: "They're Coming to Take Me Away (Ha Ha)" released by Napolean XIV

Julie Krone (1963); Anna Paquin (1982)

1487: Rebellion against oreign beer in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
1824: Results of first public opinion poll published (Harrisburg, PA / Support of Andrew Jackson)
1901: O. Henry released from prison

Thomas Eakins (1844); Roger Clinton (1956); Molly Bennett Aiken (1944)

1965: Dylan plays electric guitar at music festival, "invents" folk rock, is booed off stage
1975: A Chorus Line premiers

Aldous Huxley (1894); Terri Nunn (1961)

1952: King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates
1990: Taping of General Hospital's 7000 episode

Alexandre Dumas (1824)

1931: Grasshoppers destroy crops in South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa
1940: Billboard magazine publishes first music charts

Beatrix Potter (1866); Sally Struthers (1948)

1586: Potato arrives in Britain by Sir Francis Drake
2002: Quecreek miners rescued

Diana Vreeland (1903); Ken Burns (1953)

1786: Pittsburgh Gazette becomes first newspaper printed west of the Alleghenies
1983: Friday Night Videos debuts on NBC

George "Buddy" Guy (1936); Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Frank Stallone (1950)

1935: First Penguin Books paperbacks published
1991: MTV announces split into three new channels beginning 1993
2006: final broadcast of BBC's Top of the Pops (world's longest running music show)

Milton Friedman (1912); Ted Cassidy (1932)

1970: Britain's Royal Navy officially ends daily rum rations for crew members (Black Tot Day)