W.E.B. Du Bois(founder of the Niagara Movement, which eventually merged with the NAACP)β
Gracie Allen(actress & comedienne)β
Brian Epstein(manager of The Beatles)β
Margaret Bourke-White(American photographer)β
Stevie Ray Vaughan(blues musician)β
Born
Giuseppe Peano(mathematician)β
Theodore Dreiser(author)β
Carl Bosch(chemist)β
Katharine McCormick(women’s rights activist)β
Lyndon B. Johnson(36th U.S. president)β
Lester Young(jazz musician)β
Tom Ford(fashion designer)β
Chandra Wilson(actress)β
Sarah Chalke(actress)β
Aaron Paul(actor)β
Alexa Vega(actress who starred as Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids movie series)β
Events
The first English theatrical performance in the American colonies was heldβ
Town of York in Upper Canada founded (renamed Toronto in 1834)β
Edwin L Drake drilled the first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the beginning of the commercial development of the American petroleum industryβ
Charles Gerard Conn received a patent for an all metal clarinetβ
First autogiro loop-the-loop performed in public, in Cleveland, Ohioβ
Largest trade at the time in NBA history, 11 players, 3 teamsβ
Weather
Sea Islands Hurricane hit near Savannah, Georgiaβ
The temperature in Buffalo, New York, reached 99 degrees Fβ
Hurricane Cleo battered southern Floridaβ
Thunderstorms in North Dakota dropped 6 inches of rain on the town of Linton in 1 hourβ