Hubert Humphrey(vice president of the United States)β
Charity Adams Earley(first African American officer in the Women’s Army Corps and commander of the only unit of African American women to serve overseas in WW II)β
Patrick McGoohan(actor)β
Teddy Pendergrass(R&B singer)β
Blackie(thought to be the oldest male Nile hippopotamus recorded in North America at the time; he died at an estimated age 59)β
Alfred K. Newman(U.S. Marine Corps specialist)β
Born
Friedrich Muller(painter)β
Horatio Alger(author)β
Sophie Tucker(singer)β
Kay Francis(actress)β
Robert Stack(actor)β
Gwen Verdon(actress)β
Charles Nelson Reilly(actor)β
Julia Louis-Dreyfus(actress)β
Patrick Dempsey(actor)β
Orlando Bloom(actor)β
Events
American troops ordered into disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Riverβ
A meeting took place in Washington, D.C., to organize the National Geographic Society
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Opera was heard live for the first time on the radioβ
Mickey Mouse comic strip debuted in newspapersβ
The Wham-O Company developed the first frisbeeβ
Brazil and the U.S. signed their first extradition treatyβ
Robert C. Weaver, the first African American ever nominated to the U.S. Cabinet, named Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Developmentβ
U.S. Department of the Interior approved construction of the Alaskan pipelineβ
Hank Aaron was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fameβ
Air Florida plane crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C., killing 78 peopleβ
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school officials can censor student newspapersβ
Figure skater Tonya Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, was arrested for his alleged role in the attack on skater Nancy Kerriganβ
Existence of monkey clone Tetra announcedβ
Weather
Nochian Flood of California created a vast sea in the Sacramento Valleyβ
Sixty-five degrees below zero F at Fort Keogh near Miles City, Montanaβ
Temperature rose 64 degrees in 14 hours at Radio City, South Dakotaβ
Citrus crop froze in Florida; 8 degrees F, in Tallahaseeβ
13.5 inches of snow in San Antonio, Texasβ
Hallock, Minnesota, suffered a cold temperature of -38 degrees Fβ