Birthdays
1943 - Mick Jagger, musician – The Rolling Stones (Dartford, England)
1945 - Helen Mirren, actress (London, England)
1956 - Dorothy Hamill, Olympic figure skater (Chicago, IL)
1959 -Kevin Spacey, actor (South Orange, NJ)
1964 - Sandra Bullock, actress (Arlington, VA)
1964 - Danny Woodburn, actor (Philadelphia, PA)
1965 - Jeremy Piven, actor (New York, NY)
1967 - Jason Statham, actor (Shirebrook, England)
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, actress (London, England)
1993 - Taylor Momsen, actress (St. Louis, MO)
Anniversaries
1775 - The postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress.
1788 - New York becomes the 11th state in the United States.
1847 - Liberia becomes a republic.
1887 - The first book about Esperanto, Unua Libro, is published by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof.
1891 - Tahiti is annexed by France.
1908 - The FBI is founded by US Attorney General Charles Joseph Boneparte. It was originally called the Office of the Chief Examiner.
1944 - The United States Army begins desegregation.
1947 - President Harry Truman signs the National Security Act, establishing the Defense Department, the NSA, the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1948 - An executive order ending racial segregation in the armed forces is signed by President Harry Truman.
1952 - Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, dies at the age of 33 in Buenos Aires.
1953 - Fidel Castro begins a revolution.
1956 - The Suez Crisis begins when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the British and French-owned Suez Canal. In retaliation, France, Israel and the United Kingdom invade Egypt.
1965 - The Maldives declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1990 - The Americans with Disabilities Act, which bars discrimination against the handicapped and requires that public facilities be accessible, is signed by President George H. W. Bush.
2005 - The Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 is launched from Florida marking the first return to flight since the Columbia disaster.
2006 - In a re-trial, Andrea Yates is found not guilty by reason of insanity of killing her five children in 2001.
2013 - Ariel Castro pleads guilty to 937 of 977 charges against him in relation to the kidnappings of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.
