1737: Violin maker Antonio Stradivari dies.
1865: The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, banning slavery in the United States.
1878: Josef Stalin is born.
1886: Ty Cobb is born.
1888: Robert Moses is born.
1890: Edwin Armstrong is born. He invented FM radio.1892: The first performance of The Nutcracker is held.
1913: Alfred Bester is born.
1916: Betty Grable is born.
1917: Ossie Davis is born.1938: Chas Chandler is born. He played bass for The Animals.
1943: Keith Richards is born.
1944: The Supreme Court upholds the wartime internment of Japenese-Americans.
1946: Steven Spielberg is born.
1946: Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist is born.
1953: Elliot Easton is born. He played guitar for The Cars.
1955: Ray Liotta is born.
1957: The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania goes online. It's the first civilian nuclear power plant.
1963: Brad Pitt is born.
1978: Kate Holmes is born
1997: Chris Farley dies.
1980: Christina Aguilera is born.
1987: Larry Wall released the first version of the Perl programming language.
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