Died 1745: Jonathan Swift (author) Born 1748: Martha Jefferson (wife of Thomas Jefferson; died before presidency) 1781: Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War Born 1810: Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) Born 1858: Alice McLellan Birney (child welfare worker; the work by her and others led to the formation of the PTA) 1860: President Abraham Lincoln wrote to an 11-year-old girl who requested that he grow a beard Born 1899: Eddie Bauer (merchant) Died 1916: Leo Clarke (Victoria Cross recipient) Born 1922: Jack Anderson (journalist) Born 1931: John Le Carre (author) Born 1932: Robert Reed (actor) 1936: Watertown Senior High School, in South Dakota, was the first school to fingerprint students Born 1937: Peter Max (artist) 1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University Born 1945: John Lithgow (actor) Born 1947: Giorgio Cavazzano (comic strip artist & illustrator) Died 1950: Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) 1957: Queen Elizabeth II went to a U.S. football game 1959: The Miracle Worker, a dramatization of Helen Kellers early life, opens on Broadway Born 1960: Jennifer Holliday (singer) Born 1965: Ty Pennington (carpenter; host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) Born 1965: Brad Daugherty (basketball player) Born 1966: Jon Favreau (actor, writer, & director) Born 1970: Chris Kattan (actor) Born 1972: Keith Foulke (baseball player) 1982: U.S. auto executive, John DeLorean, was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police 1985: The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas 1987: Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22% on what has become known as Black Monday 2003: Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II 2007: An earthquake measuring 2.5 hit Massachusetts 2007: In Indiana, a familys pet Amazon parrot saved their lives by mimicking the sound of a fire alarm to alert them their house was on fire Died 2008: Richard Blackwell (fashion designer & critic known simply as Mr. Blackwell) 2008: The Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history Died 2010: Tom Bosley (actor)
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