1989 Importation of semiautomatic assault rifles is banned by Pres. Bush.

1983 First time ever OPEC agrees to cut prices of crude oil.

1964 Kennedy Assassination Jack Ruby is sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. The conviction was later overturned and he died while awaiting retrial.

1951 Korean War The U.S. recaptures Seoul, the former capital of the Korean Republic.

1950 Ten Most Wanted The first FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List is announced.

1938 First Shopping Cart The patent is filed for by its inventor, the owner of a Humpty Dumpty Grocery store in Oklahoma City. It was essentially a folding chair with wheels and baskets attached.

1937 Jack Benny and Fred Allen meet on radio to settle their long-standing feud. This was one the highest-rated radio events ever broadcast.

1900 The gold standard for currency is officially adopted by the U.S. It had been in use unofficially since 1879.

1812 First U.S. War Bonds $11 million in bonds are authorized by Congress to support the War of 1812.

1794 Cotton gin Eli Whitney receives a patent for his famous invention.

1947 Billy Crystal American comedian, "You look marvelous." TV: Soap (Jodie Dallas - TV's first openly gay person).

1933 Quincy Jones (Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.), American composer, conductor. He produced Michael Jackson's Thriller, the biggest-selling LP of all time.

1933 Michael Caine (Maurice Micklewhite), British actor. Film: Alfie (1966) and Sleuth (1972).

1928 Frank Borman American astronaut. He was command pilot for Apollo 8, the first lunar orbital mission (1968).

1920 Hank Ketcham (Henry King Ketcham), American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (1951).

1879 Albert Einstein d. 1955 German-born Nobel-winning physicist and mathematician who introduced the theory of relativity.

1854 Thomas Riley Marshall d. 1925 28th U.S. Vice-President (1913-21). Proclaimed "What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar" (1915).

1854 Paul Ehrlich d. 1915 German Nobel-winning bacteriologist, immunologist. He discovered the first cure for syphilis (1910).

1835 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli d. 1910 Italian astronomer. He discovered the "canals" of Mars (1877).

1999 Kirk Alyn b. 1910 (John Feggo, Jr.), American actor.  He played Superman in the 1948 movie serial and in its sequel Atom Man Vs. Superman (1950).  He also played young Lois Lane's father in the 1978 Superman movie.

1975 Susan Hayward b. 1919 (Edythe Marrener), American Oscar-winning actress. Film: I Want To Live (1958). Her death was attributed to radiation exposure received from an A-bomb test near the filming of a movie in 1953.

1973 Howard Hathaway Aiken b. 1900 American engineer, builder of the second digital computer (Mark I, 1944).

1973 Chic Young b. 1901 (Murat Bernard Young), American cartoonist, creator of Blondie (1930).

1932 George Eastman b. 1854 American inventor, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company (1880). He patented the first practical roll film camera (Kodak, 1888).

1883 Karl Heinrich Marx b. 1818 German socialist and philosopher.

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