2006: Full Buck Moon
Born 1775: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (U.S. First Lady)
Died 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet)
Born 1844: Thomas Eakins (artist)
1866: Ulysses S. Grant received the rank of General of the Army, the first American officer to be so designated
Born 1894: Walter Brennan (actor)
Born 1902: Eric Hoffer (philosopher)
1917: Canadian income tax introduced
Born 1924: Estelle Getty (actress)
1956: The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog
Died 1958: Harry Warner (one of the founders of Warner Bros.)
Born 1967: Matt LeBlanc (actor)
Died 1973: Louis Stephen Saint Laurent (12th Prime Minister of Canada)
Born 1978: Gerard Warren (football player)
1978: The first documented test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in England
1984: Soviet cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to walk in space
Died 2003: Thomas Savage (novelist)
2003: Germany's Kuno the Killer catfish's carcass washed up on shore. The 5-foot-long, 77 pound catfish sprang from the waters of Volksgarden Park Lake in 2001 to swallow a dachshund puppy whole
2005: A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southwestern Montana
Died 2007: Jake (dog that searched for September 11th and Hurricane Katrina victims)



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