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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1924 Dennis Weaver, Actor.
1928 Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sexologist
1936 Bruce Dern
1937 Freddy Fender, Country singer.
1952 Parker Stevenson, actor.
1968 Scott Wolf, actor "Party of Five".
1971 Noah Wyle, actor.
Events On This Day In History
1647 The English army seized King Charles I as a hostage.
1812 Louisiana Territory is re-named the Missouri Territory.
1896 Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because the car was wider than the door of the shed in which it was built. Remember, "Ford has a better idea!"
1911 Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.
1988 The world record for "Hacky-Sacking" is set, 48,825 consecutive times.
1989 Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.
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