2006: Sadie Hawkins Day
2011: Full Beaver Moon
Born 1483: Martin Luther (founder of the Lutheran church)
Born 1697: William Hogarth (painter)
1775: The American Continental Congress established a full-time national Marine Corps, the Continental Marines
Born 1801: Samuel Gridley Howe (physician)
1871: Journalist Henry Morton Stanley located missing Scottish missionary, David Livingstone, in Central Africa, and delivered his famous greeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume."
Born 1874: Donald Baxter Macmillan (arctic explorer)
Born 1889: Claude Rains (actor)
Born 1913: Karl Jay Shapiro (poet)
1919: National Book Week was first observed in the United States
Born 1925: Richard Burton (actor)
Born 1932: Roy Scheider (actor)
Born 1934: Norm Cash (baseball player)
Born 1956: Sinbad (actor)
Born 1959: MacKenzie Phillips (actress)
Born 1969: Ellen Pompeo (actress)
1969: Gene Autry received a gold record for the single, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," 20 years after its release
1969: Sesame Street made its television debut
1975: The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore boat with 29 crewmen aboard, sank during a storm on Lake Superior
Born 1977: Brittany Murphy (actress)
Died 1982: Leonid Brezhnev (Russian Premier)
Born 1985: Giovonnie Samuels (actress)
Born 1986: Josh Peck (actor)
Died 2006: Jack Palance (actor)
Died 2007: Norman Mailer (author)
Died 2008: Miriam Makeba (singer, referred to as Mama Africa)



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