Born On This Day:

• Samuel Rogers, 1763
• Emily Brontë, 1818
• Henry Ford, 1863
• Casey Stengel, 1890
• Henry Moore, 1898
• John Mason Brown, 1900
• C. Northcote Parkinson, 1909
• Edd Byrnes, 1933
• Peter Bogdanovich, 1939
• Paul Anka, 1941
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1947
• Ken Olin, 1954
• Anita Hill, 1956
• Delta Burke, 1956
• Kate Bush, 1958
• Larry Fishbourne, 1961
• Lisa Kudrow, 1963
• Hilary Swank, 1974

Died On This Day:

• William Penn, 1718
• Thomas Gray, 1771
• Prince Otto von Bismarck, 1898
• Emperor Meiji of Japan, 1912
• Alfred Joyce Kilmer killed, 1918
• Alfred von Krupp, 1967
• George Szell, 1970
• Jimmy Hoffa missing presumed killed, 1975
• Howard Dietz, 1983
• Lynn Fontanne, 1983
• Claudette Colbert, 1996
• William Fadiman, 1999
• Michelangelo Antonioni, 2007
• Ingmar Bergman, 2007

Today's Events:

• 1419 - Hussites storm town hall in Prague and throw 7 councilors out the window - first Defenestration.
• 1619 - First assembly in America, the House of Burgesses, meets at Jamestown.
• 1656 - Battle of Warsaw ends.
• 1909 - U.S. Government purchases first airplane from the Wright brothers for $30,000.
• 1930 - America's first experimental television station W2RBX begins broadcasts in New York.
• 1932 - Walt Disney's first Technicolor short film debuts - 'Flowers and Trees.'
• 1935 - Penguin Books in England publishes the first paperback -Ariel, a biog of Shelley by Maurois - cost 6d.
• 1937 - AFTRA founded, American Federation of Radio Television Artists.
• 1945 - USS Indianapolis torpedoed by Japanese submarine. 316 out of 1,196 survive sinking and sharks.
• 1956 - 'In God We Trust' becomes motto of the United States in act signed by President Eisenhower.
• 1959 - Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore file patent application for integrated circuit technology on behalf of Fairchild Semiconductor; granted 4/25/61.
• 1965 - Medicare bill signed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
• 1973 - After an 11 year legal battle in Britain, withered limb victims of drug thalidomide awarded £20 mil.
• 2002 - World record price of $7.5m paid for 1933 Double Eagle $20 gold piece of 1933; formerly Farouk's.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Day of Euclid, father of Geometry.

Holiday:

• Independence Day Vanuatu (1980)

Non-Specific Holiday:

• JAGANNATH, RATHA YATRA, Hindu Festival of Car Procession of Vishnu
• CHI HSI, Festival of the Milky Way in China (seventh day of the seventh moon)
• CHUNG YÜAN, Festival of the Dead in China (fifteenth day of the seventh moon)
• NAGA PANCHAMI, Hindu Festival of the Serpent God
• RAKHI, Hindu Festival to Pledge Protection
• CHUNG-CH'IU, Mid-autumn festival, Harvest or Moon Festival (fifteenth day of the eighth moon)
• TISH'AH B'AB (Jewish) Anniversary of fall of Jerusalem and destruction of first & 2nd temples Ab 9
• NEBUTA, Japanese Festival at peak of summer to drive off lethargy
• SOMA NOMAOI, Japanese Festival of samurai equestrian displays