2009 Spector Murder Music producer Phil Spector is found guilty of second degree murder of the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson (film: Barbarian Queen, title role) in home.

1992 Tunnel ruptures flooding downtown Chicago basements.

1992 Princess Anne files for an uncontested divorce from Mark Phillips.

1988 First patent for an animal species The "Harvard mouse" is patented. Its altered genes make it highly susceptible to cancer and therefore useful in research.

1983 Zsa Zsa Gabor The Hungarian beauty queen marries her 8th husband. They would have the marriage annulled the following day.

1981 Jimmy's World: Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke wins a Pulitzer for her story of an eight-year-old heroin addict. It was later revealed that she made the story up.

1979 Yusufu Lule is sworn in as president of Uganda after overthrowing the eight-year rule of Idi Amin.

1976 The new U.S. $2 bill is placed in circulation.

1970 Houston, we've had a problem here: An Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes, endangering the crew and causing the planned moon landing to be aborted.

1964 First black to win a Best Actor Oscar Sidney Poitier wins for Lilies of the Field.

1943 The Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C., is dedicated.

1925 First regularly scheduled commercial aviation Henry Ford opens a freight line between Detroit and Chicago.

1881 Billy the Kid The notorious outlaw is sentenced to hang for the murder of Sheriff William J. Brady during the Lincoln County Cattle War.  He escaped by killing two deputies, but was killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett three months later.

1860 First run of the Pony Express arrives in Sacramento, California. It had departed from St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3.

1844 Edgar Allen Poe's Balloon Hoax The famous writer's fictional account of a balloon crossing of the Atlantic is published

1752 First fire insurance company is organized, in Philadelphia.

1946 Al Green American soul singer, songwriter, Let's Stay Together (#1, 1971) and I'm Still In Love With You (1972).

1942 Bill Conti composer, created the music for the Rocky movies.

1937 Edward Fox British actor. Film: The Day of the Jackal (1973, the Jackal) and Never Say Never Again (1983, James Bond's superior 'M').

1935 Lyle Waggoner American actor. TV: Wonder Woman (Steve Trevor).

1923 Don Adams d. 2005 (Donald James Yarmy), American actor. TV: Get Smart (Agent 86, Maxwell Smart) and Inspector Gadget (1983-85, voice of Gadget).

1919 Howard Keel (Harold Keel), American actor. TV: Dallas (Clayton Farlow).

1899 Alfred Mosher Butts d. 1993 American architect, inventor of the game Scrabble (1932).

1892 Sir Robert Watson-Watt d. 1973 British inventor. He is considered the inventor of RADAR (1935), although others had also done research on it. He was the first to create a working system.

1866 Herman Long d. 1909 American baseball player. He holds the record for most career errors (1,037 errors during 1,877 games from 1889-1904). In 1900 he led the National League in home runs.

1866 Butch Cassidy d. ???? (George LeRoy Parker), American outlaw, boasted of never having killed a man. He and the Sundance Kid were reported killed in 1908 by Bolivian troops after a robbery, but his sister claimed he lived in the U.S. until 1937.

1852 Frank W. Woolworth d. 1919 American businessman, founder of Woolworths (1879). His first store failed within three months, but he tried again and the rest is history.

1795 James Harper d. 1869 American publisher, co-founded Harper & Row, Publishers.

1750 John Trumbull d. 1831 American poet.

1743 Thomas Jefferson d. 1826 3rd U.S. President (1801-09), 2nd U.S. Vice-President (1797-1801), author of the Declaration of Independence, and the first U.S. Secretary of State (1790-93). Both he and John Adams died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

1570 Guy Fawkes d. 1606 English conspirator. He is known for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, in which he and his fellow conspirators attempted to blow up King James I and the English Parliament. The were caught and executed.

1925 Elwood Haynes b. 1857 American automobile pioneer. He developed the first U.S. automobile (1894). He also discovered tungsten chrome steel (1881) and patented stainless steel (1919). Source: Myth Information: More Than 590 Popular Misconceptions, Fallacies, and Misbeliefs Explained!

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