1987 Animal Crack-Ups debuts on ABC, with host Alan Thicke.

1975 Hank Williams, Jr. Falls From a Mountain The singer fell 442 feet while climbing Ajax Mountain in Montana. His injuries required reconstructive surgery to his face and he had to relearn to talk and sing.

1974 Watergate Pres. Nixon announces his intention to resign the following day. He had admitted his complicity in the Watergate cover-up three days earlier.

1963 The Great Train Robbery Masked bandits rob a British postal train of £2.6 million (equivalent to $7 million US) in Buckinghamshire, England. This was Britain's largest robbery up to that time. The gang was eventually apprehended, although much of the money was never recovered. The film Buster (1988, starring singer Phil Collins) was based on one of the robbers.

1933 First Federal Savings and Loan Association First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Miami, Florida is chartered.

1866 First Queen to Visit the US Former Queen Emma of Hawaii (1855-63) arrives in New York.

1829 First U.S. locomotive to run on rails The Stourbridge Lion is tested in Pennsylvania.

1786 Coinage of U.S. money is established by Congress.

1988 Princess Beatrice first child of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York.

1961 The Edge (Dave Evans), Irish guitarist, with U2. Music: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1983) and With You Or Without You (1987, #1).

1953 Donny Most American actor. TV: Happy Days (Ralph Malph).

1949 Keith Carradine American actor, singer.

1944 John Holmes d. 1988 (John Curtis Estes), American porn star, died of AIDS. He appeared in over 2,000 pornographic films. His life was the basis for the films Boogie Nights (1997) and Wonderland (2003).

1938 Connie Stevens (Concetta Ann Ingolia), American actress. TV: Hawaiian Eye (Cricket Blake).

1937 Dustin Hoffman American Oscar-winning actor. Film: The Graduate (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, Oscar), Tootsie (1982), and Rain Main (1988, Oscar).

1932 Mel Tillis American country songwriter, singer, actor. Wrote: Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town (1969). TV: Hee-Haw.

1926 Richard Anderson actor. TV: The Six Million Dollar Man (Oscar).

1923 Esther Williams American swimmer, actress, known as "Hollywood's Mermaid."

1922 Rudi Gernreich fashion designer, introduced topless bathing suits (1974) and the thong bathing suit.

1922 Rory Calhoun (Francis Timothy Durgin), American actor. TV: The Texan (Bill Longley).

1901 Ernest Orlando Lawrence d. 1958 American Nobel-winning physicist. He developed the atom smasher which produced the fuel for the first atomic bombs.

1993 Harry Bellaver b. 1905 American actor. TV: Naked City (Frank Arcaro) and Another World (Ernie Downs).

1988 Alan Napier b. 1903 (Alan Napier-Clavering), British actor. TV: Batman (Alfred the butler).

1970 Citation b. 1945 thoroughbred race horse, 1948 Triple Crown winner, and the first race horse to win $1,000,000 (1951).

117 Trajan b. A.D. 53 Spanish-born Roman Emperor (98-117). Emperor Nerva, whom he succeeded, adopted him as his son in 97 A.D.

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