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Events

• 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
• 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
• 1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.
• 1893 - The Independent Labor Party of the UK has its first meeting.
• 1898 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 1910 - The first radio broadcast. Inventor Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera.
• 1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
• 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
• 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia.
• 1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
• 1966 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• 1972 - Prime Minister of Ghana, Dr Kofi Busia's ousted in bloodless military coup.
• 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, an Air Florida jumbojet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.
• 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
• 1998 - ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.
• 1999 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team announces his retirement (for the second time -- he has since rescinded his retirement).
• 2001 - An earthquake hits El Salvador. More than 5,000 deaths.

• 1596 - Jan van Goyen, painter (d. 1656)
• 1653 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (d. 1705)
• 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricistand dramatist, also known as Maler Müller (d. 1825)
• 1808 - Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, Chief Justice, (d. 1873)
• 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr, Unitarian minister, author (d. 1899)
• 1859 - Karl Bleibtreu, critic (d. 1928)
• 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist (d. 1928)
• 1866?- G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic. He stated he was born at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve Julian calendar (d. 1949)
• 1867 - Francis Everett Townsend, American physician and social reformer
• 1879 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International (d. 1961)
• 1884 - Sophie Tucker, singer, comedienne, vaudeville performer (d. 1966)
• 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, writter (d. 1961)
• 1919 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
• 1919 - Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
• 1925 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (d. 2000)
• 1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (Amanda Cross) - feminist author (d. 2003)
• 1930 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
• 1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, actor
• 1942 - Richard Moll, actor
• 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, television executive (d. 1997)
• 1955 - Jay McInerney, writer
• 1960 - Kevin Anderson, actor
• 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
• 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress
• 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, actor
• 1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
• 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian NHL goalie
• 1977 - Orlando Bloom, actor
• 1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentinian professional tennis player

• 86 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician
• 858 - Ethelwulf, king of Wessex (b. ca. 800)
• 1151 - Abbot Suger abbot of Saint-Denis (b. 1081)
• 1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet (b. 1552)
• 1864 - Stephen Foster, composer of Camptown Races, Oh! Susannah (b. 1826)
• 1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend (b. 1848)
• 1941 - James Joyce, writer (b. 1882)
• 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, actor, comedian (b. 1919)
• 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Vice President of the United States and former Senator from Minnesota (b. 1911)
• 1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b. 1908)
• 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• 2002 - Ted Demme film and television director (b. 1963)
• 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer, found dead in his cell (b. 1946)
• 2004 - Arne Næss jr, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (b. 1937)

• Catholicism - Baptism of the Lord
• National Vocation Awareness Week
• Lovers of Life International - Day of Orgiastic Life
• Liberation Day in Togo

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