Historical Events
1894 - Lawrence Hargrave, Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite, linked four huge box kites together and flew - but remained attached to the ground by piano wire
1947 - KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 - E Arcaro, E Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1965 - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1995 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
Famous Birthdays
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, women's rights activist
1858 - Alexis Contant, composer
1914 - Sylvi Saimo, Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)
1975 - Angela Watson, actress (Karen Foster-Step by Step)
1979 - Corey Maggette, American professional basketball player
1989 - Paul Jessup, actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
Famous Deaths
1567 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France, dies at 74
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1976 - Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1991 - Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, cardinal/archbishop of Montreal, dies at 87
2008 - Mitch Mitchell, English musician (b. 1947)
2010 - Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
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