Birthday of Confucius as celebrated in the Republic of China.

1968 First North American Soccer League championship The Atlanta chiefs defeat the San Diego Toros.

1955 First World Series game televised in color Between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still The science-fiction classic is released. "Klaatu barada nikto."

1920 Black Sox Scandal Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for accepting bribes to throw the World Series. They were banned from baseball even though they were eventually acquitted.

1904 "You can't do that on Fifth Ave," a New York City policeman tells a woman as she is arrested for smoking a cigarette in an open automobile.

1850 Flogging abolished The U.S. abolishes flogging in the Navy and Merchant Marine.

1542 First Europeans to reach the Pacific coast Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo lands at San Diego Bay.

1968 Rob Moroso d. 1990 American race car driver, NASCAR 1990 Rookie of the Year (awarded posthumously).  He died in a car crash near his home in North Carolina.  He was doing 75 mph (121 km/h) in a 35 mph (56 km/h) curve with a blood alcohol level of 0.22.  The accident killed himself and the driver of the oncoming vehicle.

1934 Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), French actress, "Sex Kitten." Film: And God Created Woman (1957).

1926 Jerry Clower d. 1998 American comedian, with many jokes about the Ledbetter family.

1923 William Windom American actor. TV: Murder, She Wrote (Dr. Seth Hazlitt).

1923 Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Mastrojanni), Italian actor. Film: La Dolce Vita (1959), 8½ (1963), and Divorce Italian Style (1961).

1916 Peter Finch d. 1977 (William Mitchell), British Oscar-winning actor. Film: Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971, British Film Academy Award) and Network (1976, Oscar - the first posthumously-awarded Oscar).

1915 Ethel Rosenberg d. 1953 American traitor, she and her husband Julius became the first U.S. citizens executed for treason during peace time. They had been convicted of selling top secret information to the Soviets.

1913 Alice Marble d. 1990 American tennis player, winner of four U.S. amateur singles titles.

1909 Al Capp d. 1979 (Alfred Gerald Caplin), American cartoonist, creator of Li'l Abner (1934).

1901 Ed Sullivan d. 1974 American Broadway columnist, TV personality, host of a "Really big shew" for 23 years.

1856 Kate Douglas Wiggin d. 1923 American author. Writings: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

2003 Elia Kazan b. 1909 (Elia Kazanjoglou), Greek-born Oscar-Tony-winning director. Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Film: Gentleman's Agreement (1947, Oscar) and On the Waterfront (1954). His The Arrangement was the best selling book of 1967.

1989 Ferdinand Edralin Marcos b. 1917 ousted leader of the Philippines.

1983 Roy C b. 1912 Sullivan, American park ranger, "Human Lightning Rod."  He was struck by lightning and survived a record seven times.

1978 John Paul I b. 1912 (Albino Luciani), 263rd Pope (Aug. - Sept. 1978), had been Pope for only 34 days when he died of a heart attack.

1973 Mantan Moreland b. 1902 American actor. Film: The Charlie Chan movies (Chan's chauffeur Birmingham Brown).

1964 Harpo Marx b. 1893 (Adolph Marx), American comedian, the nonspeaking, harp-playing, horn blowing, Marx Brother.

1953 Edwin Powell Hubble b. 1889 American astronomer, noted for his investigations of nebulae and for creating and developing the concepts of an expanding universe.

1938 Charles Edgar Duryea b. 1861 American inventor, "Father of the Automobile." He and his brother Frank formed the first U.S. automobile company, Duryea Motor Wagon Co. (1895), selling their first car in 1896.

1914 Richard Warren Sears b. 1863 American businessman, co-founded Sears, Roebuck and Co.

1895 Louis Pasteur b. 1822 French chemist, bacteriologist, discovered a vaccination for rabies (1885) and food preservation by heating (pasteurization).

1891 Herman Melville b. 1819 American author. Writings: Moby-Dick (1851).

235 Saint Pontian b. ???? Italian religious leader, 18th Pope (230-235).

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