1975 First pictures transmitted from another planet The Soviet Venera 9 transmits pictures from Venus.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Pres. Kennedy announces the presence of offensive Soviet missile buildup in Cuba.

1946 Xerox Chester Carlson of New York invents his copying method. He approached IBM with his invention, but they turned it down.

1923 World record for an hour's typing Albert Tangora of New Jersey averages 147 words per minute. Source: Guinness Book of World Records

1922 Amelia Earhart The famed aviator flies to an altitude of 14,000 feet (4,300 m), setting a world record for female pilots and her first of many records.

1883 Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.

1844 The end of the world According to the religious followers of William Miller who supposedly gave away their earthly possessions in preparation for the event.

1836 First president of Texas Sam Houston is sworn in.

1797 First parachute jump André-Jacques Garnerin in Paris.

1746 Princeton University College of New Jersey is founded. It was later renamed Princeton. Princeton was the first to use the word "campus" (c 1774).

2134 B.C. Earliest Record of a Solar Eclipse The Chinese make records of the celestial event.

1952 Jeff Goldblum American actor. Film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Transylvania 6-5000 (1985), and The Fly (1986).

1943 Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Dorléac), French actress, international film star. Film: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, French Film Academy Award) and Belle de Jour (1967).

1943 Bobby Fuller d. 1966 American singer, songwriter, formed The Bobby Fuller Four. Music: I Fought the Law (1966). He died in a mysterious car accident just as the group was taking off.

1942 Annette Funicello American actress, Mouseketeer.

1939 Tony Roberts American actor. Film: Play It Again Sam (1972) and Annie Hall (1977).

1938 Christopher Lloyd American Emmy-winning actor. Film: Back to the Future (1985, Doc) and The Addams Family (1991, Uncle Fester). TV: Taxi (Reverend Jim).

1920 Timothy Leary American psychologist. He promoted the psychedelic experience of the '60s with his famous phrase "Turned on, tuned in, and dropped out."

1917 Joan Fontaine British Oscar-winning actress. Film: Suspicion (1941, Oscar).

1844 Sarah Bernhardt d. 1923 (Rosine Bernard), French actress, called Divine Sarah. She is considered the first great actress to appear in a motion picture (1900). She continued her successful career after her leg was amputated in 1915.

1811 Franz Liszt d. 1886 Hungarian composer. He is famous for his Hungarian rhapsodies.

1992 Cleavon Little b. 1939 American Tony-Emmy-winning actor. Film: Blazing Saddles (1974, the sheriff).

1904 Samuel Warren Abbott b. 1837 American physician, pioneer public health statistician, he published the first adequate public study in the U.S. (1900).

1831 William Barton b. 1748 American Revolutionary officer, famous for his capture of the British general Robert Prescott in 1777. He also designed the Great Seal of the U.S. It bore a spread eagle with the motto "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of many, one).

1775 Peyton Randolph b. circa 1721 American patriot, first and third president of the Continental Congress (1774, 1774-75).

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