Pioneer Day celebrated in Utah.

1993 Fans have a blast Vince Coleman of the New York Mets tosses an explosive - equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite - at fans after a game, injuring three people.

1992 Tires Recalled for Blasphemy: Japanese tire manufacturer Yokohama Rubber Co. makes the recall after it was discovered their computer-designed tread resembled the Islamic word for Allah.

1973 Watergate U.S. Supreme Court rules that Pres. Nixon must turn over 64 tapes of White House conversations to Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski.

1967 A full page ad calling for the legalization of marijuana is placed in the London Times. Its list of signers included the Beatles.

1961 First airplane hijacked from the U.S. to Cuba.

1956 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis The legendary comedy duo perform at the Copacabana, NY together for the last time as a team.

1946 First underwater atomic explosion The U.S. explodes a device near Bikini Island in the Pacific. It sank ten ships which had been set up as targets.

1851 Window tax of England is repealed, it was first levied in 1696.

1794 First public opinion poll is taken.

1951 Lynda Carter American actress, TV's Wonder Woman.

1942 Chris Sarandon American actor. Film: Dog Day Afternoon (1975). TV: The Guiding Light (Tom Halverson).

1936 Ruth Buzzi American actress, comic. TV: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

1936 Mark Goddard American actor. TV: Lost in Space (Maj. Don West).

1935 Pat Oliphant Australian-born Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist.

1920 Bella Abzug d. 1998 American politician and leader of the women's movement.  She was the first Jewish woman elected to the U.S. Congress (House of Representatives, New York 1971-77).

1917 Morrie Brickman American cartoonist, created (1966) small society.

1914 Frances Kelsey Canadian-born American pharmacologist. She prevented the use of the drug thalidomide in the U.S. (1958) due to safety concerns. It later caused 7,000 babies in Europe to be born with flipper-like arms and legs.

1897 Amelia Earhart d. 1937 American aviator. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic (1928), the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo (1932), and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932).

1802 Alexandre Dumas d. 1870 (Dumas père), French author. Writings: The Three Musketeers (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845).

1783 Simon Bolivar d. 1830 Venezuelan general, "The Liberator." He led revolutions that freed Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela from Spanish rule.

1725 John Newton d. 1807 English clergyman, hymn writer. Music: Amazing Grace (1779). Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church

1997 William Joseph Brennan Jr b. 1906 American lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1956-90).

1992 Arletty b. 1898 (Leonie Bathiat), famed French actress.

1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer b. 1904 Polish-born American Nobel-winning Yiddish author.

1989 Sunshine Sammy Morrison b. 1912 (Ernest Fredric Morrison), American actor. He was the first African-American child film star and was the first African-American performer signed to a long-term Hollywood contract (1919). Film: The Little Rascals (Booker T.) and the East Side Kids (as Scruno) movies.

1980 Peter Sellers b. 1925 British actor. Film: The Pink Panther (1964, Inspector Clouseau) and Being There (1979, the gardner).

1974 Sir James Chadwick b. 1891 English Nobel-winning physicist. He discovered the neutron (1932), for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.

1921 Cyrus Ingersoll Scofield b. 1843 American Bible teacher, editor of the Scofield Reference Bible (1909) and founded the Central American Mission (1890). Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church

1883 Matthew Webb b. 1848 Navy Captain, first person to swim the English Channel without a life preserver (Aug 24-25, 1875).  He died attempting to swim across the Niagara River. Source: Guinness Book of World Records

1862 Martin Van Buren b. 1782 8th U.S. President (1837-41) and 8th U.S. Vice-President (1833-37).

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