1648: The Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and setting the stage for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1706: Benjamin Franklin is born.
1718: Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader dies.
1863: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the UK, is born. He and Churchill were always either locking horns or swapping spit with each other. In the figurative sense, that is.
1899: The US takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1899: Al Capone is born.
1917: The US pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1922: Betty White is born.
1927: Eartha Kitt is born. She was the third Catwoman on the old Batman live-action TV show. (the first two were Lee Meriwether and Julie Newmar)
1929: Popeye first appears in the Thimble Theater comic strip by Elzie Crisler Segar.
1931: James Earl Jones is born.
1933: Shari Lewis is born. I don't know about you, but Lamb Chop always gave me the creeps.
1939: Maury Povich is born.
1942: Muhammed Ali is born.
1945: The Soviets capture Warsaw, although there wasn't much of the city left to capture.
1945: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
1949: The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television premieres.
1949: Andy Kaufman is born.
1950: 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from a Brinks office in Boston.
1959: Susanna Hoffs, lead singer for The Bangles is born. She is best known for never, ever looking at the camera during music videos.
1962: Jim Carrey is born.
1983: Doodles Weaver dies. He hosted many kiddie TV shows and is also Sigourney's uncle, but I remember him best from MST3K Episode # 615 Kitten With A Whip.
1971: Kid Rock, rocker, scum bag and herpes delivery system is born.
1980: Zooey Deschanel is born. She was in Elf and the not-really-all-that-good big budget version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
1982: "Cold Sunday" in the US sees temperatures fall to their lowest levels in 100 years. Temperatures were -40 in International Falls, MN and -5 in Jackson, MS.
2007: The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing. That means that, at least according to The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, we are closer now to Armageddon than we were at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up
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