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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, created pocket chessboard.
1782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially usable barbed wire.
1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell.
1892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
1904 Cary Grant, actor.
1913 Danny Kaye, singer, actor, dancer.
1955 Kevin Costner, actor.
1967 Kim Perrot, guard, houston Comets #10.
Events On This Day In History
1644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
1777 San Jose, CA is founded.
1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
1869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
1911 First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennsylvania).
1975 The original Morris The Cat dies.
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