1993 David Letterman announces he is moving to CBS, to compete with Jay Leno who received the Johnny Carson spot Letterman felt he deserved.

1990 America's Funniest Home Videos debuts on ABC.

1976 The Bionic Woman debuts on ABC.

1973 Elvis Presley The King of Rock 'n' Roll makes TV history when 1½ billion viewers worldwide tune in to Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii.

1969 Explosions on the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise kill 27 people and injure 82.

1952 Today, network TV's first early-morning show, debuts on NBC.

1923 First transatlantic radio broadcast between New York and London.

1914 Henry Ford begins assembly line production The assembly time for his automobiles was reduced from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.

1905 The body of John Paul Jones is found buried in Paris, after six years of searching.

1832 Edgar Allen Poe Metzengerstein, his first published short story appears in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.

1639 First written constitution in America The Fundamental Orders are created for the government of Connecticut. These earned Connecticut its nickname of The Constitution State.

1969 Jason Bateman American actor. TV: The Hogan Family (David Hogan).

1941 Faye Dunaway American Oscar-winning actress. Film: Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1974), and Network (1976, Oscar).

1926 Frank Aletter American actor. TV: It's About Time (Mac).

1924 Guy Williams d. 1989 (Armando Catalano), American actor. TV: Zorro (title role) and Lost in Space (Dr. John Robinson).

1923 Mary Ann Jackson d. 2003 American actress, one of The Little Rascals (older sister of Wheezer). She appeared in 32 Our Gang films (1928-31).

1919 Andy Rooney American Emmy-winning commentator. TV: 60 Minutes ("Did you ever wonder...").

1914 Harold Russell d. 2002 Canadian-born American actor. He was the first visibly handicapped person to appear in a major motion picture; he lost both hands in World War II. He won an Oscar for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) which he sold in 1992, making him the first person to openly sell their own Oscar.  He needed the money for his wife's medical expenses.

1902 Frances Bavier d. 1989 American actress. TV: The Andy Griffith Show (Aunt Bee).

1892 Hal Roach d. 1992 American Oscar-winning film director, producer. His films starred Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, and the Little Rascals.

1886 Hugh John Lofting d. 1947 English-born American children's author, illustrator. Writings: The Story of Dr. Dolittle (1920) and its 10 sequels.

1875 Albert Schweitzer d. 1965 German Nobel-winning medical missionary, philosopher.

1874 Thornton Waldo Burgess d. 1965 American author of children's books, creator of Peter Rabbit and the briar patch, Reddy Fox, and Grandfather Frog.

1863 Richard Felton Outcault d. 1928 American cartoonist, created the first recurring comic strip character (1896), the Yellow Kid of Hogan's Alley. He also created Buster Brown (1902).

1791 Calvin Phillips d. 1812 American dwarf, world's shortest adult male. At age 19, he was 26½ inches, 12 pounds. Source: Guinness Book of World Records

1741 Benedict Arnold d. 1801 American general, traitor, attempted to betray West Point to the British during the American Revolution.

2006 Shelley Winters b. 1922 (Shirley Schrift), American Oscar-Emmy-winning actress. Film: A Place In the Sun (1951), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959, Oscar), A Patch of Blue (1965, Oscar), Bloody Mamma (1970, Ma Barker), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).  TV: Roseanne's grandmother in Roseanne.

1986 Donna Reed b. 1921 (Donna Mullenger), American Oscar-winning actress. Film: It's A Wonderful Life (1947, Mrs. Bailey) and From Here to Eternity (1953, Oscar, Alma the prostitute). TV: The Donna Reed Show.

1984 Ray Albert Kroc b. 1902 American businessman, founder of McDonald's (1955).

1977 Peter Finch b. 1916 (William Mitchell), British Oscar-winning actor. Film: Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971, British Film Academy Award) and Network (1976, Oscar - the first posthumously-awarded Oscar).

1966 Sergei Korolev b. 1906 Soviet scientist, rocket pioneer. He designed the rocket systems used for launching the first Soviet satellites and rockets to the moon.

1957 Humphrey Bogart b. 1899 (Humphrey DeForest Bogart), Oscar-winning actor. Film: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1943), and The African Queen (1952). His upper lip was scarred and partially paralyzed while serving in the Navy during World War I.

1898 Lewis Carroll b. 1832 (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English mathematician, author. Writings: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872).

1742 Edmund Halley b. 1656 English astronomer, mathematician. In 1682, he became the first to correctly predict the return date of a comet by predicting the 1758 return of the comet of 1682.

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