1189: Phillip II of France and Richard I of England (he of coeur de lion fame) begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. The movie The Lion in Winter posits that Dicky and Phil were more than just bloodthirsty zealots and were, in fact, bumping royal uglies.
1519: Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish explorer, is executed.
1789: The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, By Sarah Wentworth Morton is printed in Boston.
1793: After being found guilty of treason, Louis XVI goes to the guillotined.
1824: Stonewall Jackson is born.
1861: Jefferson Davis resigns from the Senate.
1905: Christian Dior is born.
1911: The first Monte Carlo Rally.
1915: The Kiwanis is founded in Detroit.
1922: Telly Savalas is born.
1922: Paul Scofield is born. He played Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons.
1924: Benny Hill is born.
1924: Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear his way to leadership.
1926: Steve Reeves is born. He played Hercules in many of those old Italian sword and sandal movies.
1940: Jack Nicklaus is born.
1942: Mac Davis is born.
1942: Edwin Starr is born. he is most famous for singing "War."
1947: Jill Eikenberry is born.
1950: Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1950: George Orwell dies of TB.
1953: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, is born.
1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus is launched in Groton, CT.
1956: Geena Davis is born.
1959: Cecil B. DeMille dies.
1959: Carl Switzer dies in a gun battle over 50 dollars. He is best known for playing Alfalfa in the The Little Rascals but he also had a small part as the guy who annoys Jimmy Stewart at the dance in It's a Wonderful Life.
1976: Commercial service of the Concorde begins London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977: President Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1998: Jack Lord, of Hawaii Five-0 dies.
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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