Sir Thomas More (1478)
Charles Dickens (1812)
Frederick Douglass (1817)
Alfred Adler (1880)
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877)
Sinclair Lewis (1885)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867)
Eric Temple Bell (1883)
Eubie Blake (1883)
An Wang (1920)
Dan Quisenberry (1953)
Earl King (1934)

Elihu Root (1937)
Doug Henning (2000)
Lonesome Dave Peverett (2000)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2001)

1964 - The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock n rolls British invasion.
1944 - Germany launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
1812 - Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.
1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
1974 - The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk.
1986 - Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of family rule.
1990 - The Soviet Unions Communist Party agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power.
1991 - The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haitis first democratically elected president.
1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1998 - It was announced that Carl Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, had died from complications of lung cancer at age 51.
1999 - Jordans King Hussein died of cancer at age 63.