2000 USS The Sullivans Attack Members of the Al Qaeda attempt bomb the USS The Sullivans with a boat laden with explosives. But the boat was overloaded and sank before detonating.

1989 The Arsenio Hall Show debuts.

1970 The Beatles The mop-top musicians record their last song together: I Me Mine.

1964 First Beatles' performance on U.S. TV Jack Paar airs a film clip of the group singing She Loves You.

1961 Cuban Crisis The U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

1959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.

1952 Dragnet The TV series debuts on NBC. It starred Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday - he carries a badge.

1921 Amelia Earhart The famed aviator begins taking flying lessons.

1913 Thomas Edison demonstrates "talkies."

1776 Battle of Princeton New Jersey.

1521 German religious reformer Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X for challenging the church's doctrines. He went into hiding and began his translation of the Bible into German.

1956 Mel Gibson American-born Australian actor. Film: Mad Max (1980), Lethal Weapon (1987), Braveheart (1995), and The Passion of the Christ (2004, Director)

1951 Robert L. Crabb American underground cartoonist, creator of Tales of the Jackalope and Rockers.

1945 Victoria Principal American actress. TV: Dallas (Pamela Ewing).

1945 Stephen Stills American singer, with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

1932 Dabney Coleman American actor. TV: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

1929 Sergio Leone d. 1989 Italian director of "Spaghetti Westerns." Film: A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in America (1984).

1916 Maxene Andrews d. 1995 American singer, with the Andrews Sisters.

1916 Betty Furness d. 1994 American actress, pioneer in TV consumer reporting. TV: Today.

1909 Victor Borge d. 2000 (Borge Rosenbaum), Danish pianist, satirist, entertainer.  Quote: "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

1892 J.R.R. Tolkien d. 1973 (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien), British author. Writings: The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954).

1840 Father Damien d. 1888 (Joseph Damien de Veuster), Belgian-born Roman Catholic missionary. He dedicated his life to the lepers of Hawaii.

106 B.C. Marcus Tullius Cicero d. 43 B.C. Roman philosopher, statesman, one of Rome's greatest orators.  Before being killed by Mark Antony's assassins, he declared "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly."

2005 Will Eisner b. 1917 American cartoonist, creator of The Spirit (1940).

1992 Dame Judith Anderson b. 1898 (Frances Margaret Anderson), Australian Tony-Emmy-winning actress.  Film: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Big Momma).  TV: Santa Barbara (Minx Capwell).

1980 Joy Adamson b. 1910 Austrian environmentalist, author. Writings: Born Free (1960). His work was featured in the 1966 movie of the same title.

1979 Conrad Hilton b. 1887 American hotel executive. He bought his first hotel in Texas in 1919.

1967 Jack Ruby b. 1911 American night club owner. He died while awaiting a retrial for the murder of Pres. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

1927 Georg Clemens Perthes b. 1869 German surgeon. He discovered that X-rays inhibit the growth of tumors (1903), and proposed the use of X-rays to treat cancer.

1895 James Merritt Ives b. 1824 American lithographer, co-founder of Currier & Ives (1857). Their prints recorded the last half of 19th-century American history.

1543 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo b. ???? Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach the Pacific coast (1542, San Diego Bay).

236 Saint Anterus b. ???? Greek-born religious leader, 19th Pope (235-236).

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