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Born 1516: Queen Mary I of England
Born 1848: Louis Comfort Tiffany (artist)
1861: Jefferson Davis inaugurated as provisional president of Confederate states
1879: Auguste Bartholdi granted design patent for Statue of Liberty
1885: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in the U.S.
1930: Elm Farm Ollie, a Guernsey, became the first cow to fly in an airplane. On the same trip she also became the first cow milked in flight
1930: Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona
Born 1931: Toni Morrison (author)
Born 1950: Cybill Shepard (actress)
Born 1954: John Travolta (actor)
Born 1957: Vanna White (game show hostess)
Born 1964: Matt Dillon (actor)
Born 1968: Molly Ringwald (actress)
1995: Hiroyuki Goto recited pi to 42,195 digits
1997: Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian TV network, cancelled Pat Boone's weekly gospel music show after he appeared in black leather and fake tattoos on the American Music Awards show
Died 1998: Harry Caray (sportscaster)
Died 2001: Dale Earnhardt (race car driver)
2010: Evan Lysacek won the Olympic gold medal in men's figure skating. He became the first U.S. man to win the gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988










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