Born On This Day:

• Don Carlos (Spain), 1545
• Joseph Chamberlain, 1836
• Count von Zeppelin, 1838
• John D. Rockefeller, 1839
• Alec Waugh, 1898
• Philip Johnson, 1906
• Nelson Rockefeller, 1908
• Louis Jordan, 1908
• Walter Kerr, 1913
• Billy Eckstine, 1914
• Faye Emerson, 1917
• Roone Arledge, 1931
• Jerry Vale, 1932
• Marty Feldman, 1933
• Steve Lawrence, 1935
• Phil Gramm, 1942
• Kim Darby, 1948
• Raffi, 1948
• Anjelica Huston, 1951

Died On This Day:

• Pope Gregory XV, 1623
• Christiaan Huygens, 1695
• Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned, 1822
• Sir William Parry, 1855
• Oscar I Sweden, 1859
• Havelock Ellis, 1939
• Vivien Leigh, 1967
• Michael Wilding, 1979
• Hyman Rickover, 1986
• Howard Duff, 1990
• Kim Il Sung, 1994
• June Allyson, 2006

Today's Events:

• 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon in search of a sea route to India.
• 1524 - First kidnapping in America. Florentine explorers kidnap Indian child to bring to France.
• 1709 - Peter the Great's Russians easily defeat Charles XII (Sweden) and English-Battle of Poltava.
• 1792 - France declares war on Prussia.
• 1796 - America's first passport issued to Francis Maria Barrere.
• 1815 - Louis XVIII re-enters Paris as King of France after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
• 1858 - British declare peace in India.
• 1887 - Wall Street Journal first published by Charles H. Dow and Edward Jones.
• 1889 - John L. Sullivan wins last bare knuckle prizefight in 75th round at Richburg, Mississippi.
• 1892 - Bloody fingerprints at murder scene in Buenos Aires lead to first conviction on fingerprint evidence.
• 1907 - The Follies of 1907, the first of Ziegfeld's Follies, opens in New York starring Anna Held
• 1924 - Adolf Hitler resumes leadership of National Socialist Party.
• 1932 - Depression bottoms out as Dow Jones Average slips to record 41.22 having fallen 89% in 3 years.
• 1959 - First two Americans killed in action in Vietnam.
• 1961 - First women's singles final played at Wimbledon between Christine Truman and Angela Mortimer.
• 1976 - New York Bar Association expels Richard Nixon.
• 1985 - China approves retail sales of tampons for the first time.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Procopius
• Elizabeth of Portugal

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