1993 Art theft During the night, thieves cut a hole in the ceiling of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. They stole six Picassos and two Braques valued at $52 million.

1991 Magic Johnson retires from basketball after learning he had contracted the AIDS virus. He came out of retirement less than a year later.

1989 First elected black U.S. state governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia.

1976 Gone With The Wind is first broadcast on TV, with the conclusion the following night. It received the highest rating to date for a movie on TV.

1973 Arab Oil Embargo Pres. Nixon declares a national energy crisis in response to the embargo.

1972 Pres. Nixon is re-elected by a landslide, despite the Watergate proceedings.

1967 First black mayor of a major U.S. city Carl Stokes is elected by Cleveland, Ohio. Another black candidate, Richard G. Hatcher, was elected mayor of Gary, Indiana.

1948 Studio One debuts on TV.

1876 Rutherford B. Hayes wins the presidential election by a single electoral vote.

1811 Battle of Tippecanoe Future U.S. President William Henry Harrison came out the hero of this battle, thus years later providing him with the famous campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" (Tyler was the Vice-Presidential candidate).

1637 Anne Hutchinson The colonial religious leader is banished from the Massachusetts Colony for preaching that faith alone is sufficient for salvation.

1972 C.B. Barnes American actor. TV: Day by Day (Ross Harper).

1955 Daniel Goodwin stunt man. In 1981 he climbed the Sears Tower using rope and suction cups while wearing a Spider-Man costume.

1943 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), Canadian Grammy-winning singer. Music: Both Sides Now (1969) and Big Yellow Taxi (1970).

1922 Al Hirt (Alois Maxwell Hirt), American Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter. Music: Java (1964, Grammy).

1918 Billy Graham (William Franklin Graham), American evangelist.

1917 Joe Cobb d. 2002 American actor, appeared in 86 Our Gang films as Fat Joe.

1903 Gracie Lantz d. 1992 (Grace Stafford), American actress, wife of Walter Lantz. She provided the voice for her husband's famous creation Woody Woodpecker.

1903 Dean Jagger d. 1991 American Oscar-winning actor. Film: Twelve O'Clock High (1949, Oscar).

1902 Edward Benton Dodd d. 1991 American cartoonist, created Mark Trail (1946).

1900 Heinrich Himmler d. 1945 German Nazi official, Hitler's second in command. He organized and led the S.S. (1929), headed the Gestapo (1936), and was German interior minister (1943). He committed suicide after he was captured by the Allies.

1867 Madame Marie Curie d. 1934 Polish-born French Nobel-winning physicist, pioneer in the study of radioactivity.

1988 Bill Hoest b. 1926 American cartoonist, creator of The Lockhorns (1968), Agatha Crumm (1977), Laugh Parade (1980), Howard Huge (1981), and What a Guy! (1986).

1980 Steve McQueen b. 1930 (Terrence Steven McQueen), American actor, "The King of Cool."  Film: The Blob (1958), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), Papillon (1973), and The Towering Inferno (1974).

1967 John Nance Garner b. 1868 32nd U.S. Vice-President (1933-41).

1962 Eleanor Roosevelt b. 1884 Pres. F.D. Roosevelt's wife.

1910 Count Leo Tolstoy b. 1828 Russian novelist, religious prophet. Writings: War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).

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