2002 Iraq War - Downing Street memo: A British Prime Minister's meeting discusses the Bush administration's intention for war in Iraq.  According to the memo: Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" and "Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran." The minutes of this meeting would later be leaked to the press.

1986 Royal Wedding Prince Andrew marries Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, the Duchess of York, at London's Westminster Abbey.

1984 First Miss America to Resign Vanessa Williams - the first black Miss America - relinquishes her crown after Penthouse magazine announces it will publish nude photos of her with another woman.

1982 Helicopter crash on the set of Twilight Zone-The Movie kills actor Vic Morrow and two illegally employed Vietnamese children.

1967 12th Street Riot Race riots begin in Detroit, Michigan, lasting five days. Forty-three people were killed and 2,000 were injured.

1904 The ice cream cone is invented, by Charles E. Minches, St. Louis, Missouri.

1886 A man jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge on a bet and lives.

1851 Sioux Indians relinquish their land in Iowa and Minnesota to the U.S. with the signing of the Treaty of Traverse.

1846 Henry David Thoreau is jailed for refusing to pay his poll tax, prompting him to write Civil Disobedience.

1827 First public swimming pool in the U.S. opens, Boston Massachusetts.

1766 First U.S. medical society is formed, Brunswick, New Jersey.

1973 Monica Lewinsky American White House intern. She had an illicit affair with Pres. Bill Clinton.

1954 Janet Cooke American journalist.  As a reporter for the Washington Post, she won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for her story of an 8-year-old heroin addict. It was later revealed that she made the story up.

1950 Belinda Montgomery Canadian-born actress. TV: Doogie Howser, M.D (Katherine).

1947 David Essex British singer. Music: Rock On (1973) and I'm Gonna Make You A Star (1974, #1).

1936 Don Drysdale d. 1993 American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, sportscaster. TV: Monday Night Baseball.

1936 Anthony M. Kennedy U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

1924 Gloria DeHaven American actress. TV: Ryan's Hope (Bess Shelby).

1921 Robert Brown d. 2003 British actor, 'M' in the James Bond movies starting with Octopussy (1983) till License to Kill (1989).

1921 Calvert DeForest American actor. TV: Late Night with David Letterman (Larry "Bud" Melman).

1917 Gus Arriola cartoonist, created Gordo (1941).

1891 Harry Cohn d. 1958 American movie executive, founded (1924) Columbia Pictures.

1649 Clement XI d. 1721 Italian religious leader, 243rd Pope (1700-21).

1982 Vic Morrow b. 1932 actor. TV: Combat! (Sgt. Chip Saunders). He was killed while filming Twilight Zone-The Movie.

1973 Eddie Rickenbacker b. 1890 American aviator and race car driver, called "The Ace of Aces." He was the most decorated pilot of World War I.

1955 Cordell Hull b. 1871 American statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1945). He served in both houses of Congress and as secretary of state (1933-44). He is noted for his contributions to the establishment of the United Nations.

1951 Robert Joseph Flaherty b. 1884 American filmmaker, father of the film documentary. Film: Nanook of the North (1922), which was the first commercially successful feature length documentary.

1948 D.W. Griffith b. 1875 American film producer, director, screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (1919). Film: The Birth of a Nation (1915).

1930 Glenn Curtiss b. 1878 American aviation pioneer. He won the Scientific American prize for the first airplane flight of one kilometer (1908), opened the first U.S. flying school (1909), and invented the flying boat (1912).

1885 Ulysses Simpson Grant b. 1822 18th U.S. President (1869-77).

1875 Isaac Merrit Singer b. 1811 American inventor. He invented the continuous-stitch sewing machine (1851).

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