Feast Day of the Birth of Mary Commemorating the birth of the Virgin Mary.

1990 America's Funniest People debuts on ABC.

1988 Dan Quayle The future U.S. Vice-President states, "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."

1988 Dan Quayle The future U.S. Vice-President states, "Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense—cannot beat a better offense." In other words a good offense wins."

1974 Watergate Pres. Gerald Ford gives a full pardon to former President Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed while President.

1974 Evel Knievel The American daredevil jumps Twin Falls, Idaho's Snake River Canyon on his rocket motorcycle.

1972 Olympic massacre Israeli jets bomb Lebanon and Syria in retaliation for the killing of 11 Israeli Olympic team members by Palestinian terrorists three days earlier.

1968 First U.S. Open women's singles division The tennis championship is won by Virginia Wade of England.

1966 Tarzan debuts on NBC, starring Ron Ely. It was filmed in Brazil and Mexico.

1966 Star Trek debuts on NBC, with the episode The Man Trap.

1954 Southeast Asian Treaty Organization SATO is established with the signing of a treaty between the U.S. and seven other countries.

1951 Japanese Peace Treaty Japan, the U.S., and 47 other countries sign the treaty.

1944 World War II Germany launches its first V-2 guided rockets, striking London and Antwerp. Travelling at the speed of sound, they were virtually impossible to stop.

1943 World War II Italy makes an unconditional surrender to the Allies, although German troops there continue to fight.

1935 U.S. Senator Huey P. Long is shot at the Louisiana state capitol by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. He died two days later.

1916 U.S. International Trade Commission is established.

1892 Pledge of Allegiance It is published for the first time, by the Youth's Companion. Authorship is attributed to Francis Bellamy.

1565 Oldest European settlement still in existence in America Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndes de Avilés founds St. Augustine, Florida.

1565 First Catholic parish in what is now the U.S Fr. Don Martin Francisco Lopez de Mendozo Grajales founds a parish in St. Augustine Fla.

1971 Henry Thomas American actor. Film: E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1984).

1957 Heather Thomas American actress. TV: The Fall Guy (Jody).

1952 Mitch Robbins character played by Billy Crystal in the movie City Slickers (1991).

1932 Patsy Cline d. 1963 (Virginia Peterson Hensley), American country singer. Music: I Fall to Pieces (1961, #1) and Crazy (1961). She was the first female solo performer elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame (1973). She died in a plane crash.

1929 Darwood Kaye d. 2002 (Darwood Kenneth Smith), American actor, the rich and scholarly Waldo of The Little Rascals, he appeared in 21 Our Gang films (1937-40). He went on to become a Seventh Day Adventist Pastor until he was killed by a hit-and-run driver.

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

1922 Sid Caesar American actor, comedian. TV: Your Show of Shows (co-host).

1914 Hillary Brooke (Beatrice Peterson), American actress. TV: My Little Margie (Roberta).

1911 Euell Gibbons d. 1975 American naturalist. Writings: Stalking the Wild Asparagus (1962). He was the spokesman for Post Grape-Nuts.

1908 Austin Briggs d. 1973 American cartoonist, drew Secret Agent X-9 (1938-40) and Flash Gordon dailies (1940-44) and Sundays (1944-48).

1685 Thomas Fleet d. 1758 American printer, he published (1719) a book of nursery rhymes that his mother-in-law sang to his son. Since her name was Goose, they became Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.

1157 Richard I d. 1199 King of England (1189-99), known as Richard the Lion-Hearted.

1991 Brad Davis b. 1949 American actor. Film: Midnight Express. He died of AIDS.

1980 Willard Frank Libby b. 1908 American Nobel-winning chemist, inventor of radiocarbon dating (1949).

1977 Zero Mostel b. 1915 American actor, singer. Stage: Fiddler on the Roof (1964, as Tevye singing If I Were a Rich Man).

1970 Percy Spencer b. 1894 American scientist. While working for the Raytheon company, he stopped for a minute in front of a magnetron, a vacuum tube that generates high-frequency radio waves, and noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket was melting, which inspired him to invent the microwave oven (1946). An orphan at age eight who never graduated from grammar school, he became Senior Vice President at Raytheon and received 150 patents.

1949 Richard Strauss b. 1864 German composer, Also Sprach Zarathustra (1896), the theme of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

1882 Joseph Liouville b. 1809 French mathematician. He discovered the first proof of transcendental numbers (1844).

1784 Ann Lee b. 1736 English mystic, religious leader, founded Shakerism in America (1774).

701 Saint Sergius I b. ???? religious leader, 84th Pope (687-701).

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