Feast Day of St. Peter Celestine Patron saint of the book industry.

Feast Day of St. Dunstan Patron saint of goldsmiths.

1992 Murphy Brown Vice-Pres. Dan Quayle criticizes the TV character Murphy Brown's moral values for having a child out of wedlock.

1981 Miss USA - First Person Disqualified Deborah Ann Fountain (Miss New York State) is disqualified for padding her swim suit bra. She claimed she was just trying to make it fit better.

1950 UFOs George Adamski, often referred to as the first abductee, takes a photograph of what he claims are six UFOs flying in formation.  Grenada would depict this photograph in a 1978 commemorative stamp.

1939 First American Indian beatified by the Catholic Church: Pope Pius XII approves the selection of Kateri Tekakwitha.

1910 Halley's Comet: Earth is believed to have passed through the tail of the famous comet.

1906 Federated Boys' Clubs is organized, now called the Boys' Clubs of America.

1780 The Dark Day Much of New England becomes almost totally dark, causing widespread panic as many people thought the end of the world had come. The exact cause has never been determined, but it may have been due to a combination of forest fire smoke and cloud cover.

1643 First federation of the four American colonies The United Colonies of New England is formed.

1959 Nicole Brown Simpson d. 1994 American murder victim, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson. She and friend Ron Goldman were found murdered at her home. O.J. Simpson was tried and found not guilty of the crime.

1952 Grace Jones Jamaican-born model, singer, actress. Film: Conan the Destroyer (1984) and A View to a Kill (1985).

1946 André the Giant d. 1993 (Andre René Roussimoff), French 7-foot-4 520-pound wrestler, billed as "The Eighth Wonder of the World."  He portrayed Fessick the gentle giant in the 1989 movie The Princess Bride.  He was the first inductee into the WWF Hall of Fame (1993).

1945 Pete Townshend British singer, with The Who. Music: My Generation (1965). He wrote rock's first opera Tommy (1969) with the hit Pinball Wizard.

1940 Donald James Johnson American bowler, PBA Hall of Famer, Bowler of the Year (1971-72).

1935 David Hartman American actor. TV: Lucas Tanner (title role) and Good Morning America (host).

1934 Jim Lehrer American news correspondent. TV: PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer Report.

1928 Dolph Schayes American basketball player, first professional player to score 15,000 points (1960).

1925 Malcolm X d. 1965 (Malcolm Little), American civil rights leader. While in prison he converted to the Muslim Nation of Islam (1946) and preached that all whites were of the devil. He was assassinated by the members of the Nation of Islam after breaking from them in 1964.

1890 Ho Chi Minh d. 1969 Vietnamese leader, founder and first president of North Vietnam (1954-69).

1857 John Jacob Abel d. 1938 American physiological chemist. He was the first to produce insulin in its crystalline form, and the first to isolate (1926) the pituitary hormone.

1795 Johns Hopkins d. 1873 American businessman, philanthropist, contributed money for the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

1996 John Beradino b. 1917 American actor. TV: General Hospital (Dr. Steve Hardy from the show's inception in 1963 till his death).  He also played major league baseball from 1939 to 1953.

1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis b. 1929 (Jacqueline Lee Bouvier), American first lady, widow of John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis.

1970 Martin Branner b. 1888 American cartoonist, creator of Winnie Winkle, the Breadwinner (1920).

1961 Howard Joseph Edgar b. 1878 American songwriter. Music: Hello, My Baby.

1946 Booth Tarkington b. 1869 American Pulitzer-winning novelist. Writings: The Magnificent Ambersons (1918, Pulitzer), and Alice Adams (1921, Pulitzer).

1935 Lawrence of Arabia b. 1888 (Thomas Edward Lawrence), English soldier, spy, diplomat, and secret agent. During World War I, he organized the Arab revolt that ended Turkish rule over Arabia.

1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne b. 1804 American author, The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of Seven Gables (1851).

1846 Robert Bailey Thomas b. 1766 American publisher, founder of The Farmer's Almanac (1792, later called The Old Farmer's Almanack), which he published until his death.

1777 Button Gwinnett b. circa 1735 American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He died from injuries received in a duel.

1218 Otto IV b. circa 1174 Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1209-18).

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