1718 Blackbeard the Pirate killed on North Carolina shore

1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts

1851 The opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)

1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper

1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia

1890 Charles DeGaulle born

1898 The opera "Iris" is produced (Rome)

1899 Hoagy (Hoagland) Carmichael (songwriter Stardust)

1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help

1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs

1914 Lew Hays (founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters)

1917 National Hockey Association disbands

1917 NHL founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators andQuebec Bulldogs

1921 Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) ("I Don't Get No Respect" comedian, actor Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, The Dean Martin Show)

1922 Library Ave in the Bronx named

1923 Arthur Hiller (director The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The Silver Streak)

1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death

1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan

1924 Geraldine Page (Academy Award-winning actress The Trip to Bountiful [1985])

1926 Lew (Selva Lewis) Burdette, Jr. (baseball Milwaukee Braves)

1927 Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin, was granted the first patent ever given for a snowmobile design on this day.

1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris

1932 Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered

1932 Robert Vaughn (actor The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)

1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, CA, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight

1940 Terry Gilliam (actor Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, )

1941 Tom Conte (actor American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace)

1943 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (tennis 20 Wimbledon titles)

1943 FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY

1950 Greg The Bull' Luzinzki (baseball Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox)

1958 Jamie Lee Curtis, actress born

1961 Mariel Hemingway (actress Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4 The Quest for Peace)

1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in the UK

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