475: Domestic revolts force Byzantine Emperor Zeno to flee Constantinople.
1788: Connecticut becomes the fifth state to join the Union.
1799: British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces the income tax to help pay for the Napoleonic Wars.
1839: The French Academy of Science announces that Daguerreotype photography process.
1861: The Star of the West is fired upon near Fort Sumter, SC. This is generally considered the first shots of the American Civil War.
1861: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union.
1913: Richard Nixon is born.
1923: Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1925: Lee Van Cleef is born.
1934: Bart Starr is born.
1935: Bob Denver is born.
1941: Joan Baez is born.
1944: Jimmy Page, guitarist for Led Zeppelin, is born.
1947: Elizabeth Short, aka The Black Dhalia is last seen alive.
1948: Bill Cowsill, of The Cowsills, is born. While they were the basis for The Partridge Family, their real life was as miserable and depressing as a child star's can get.
1950: David Johansen is born.
1951: Crystal Gayle is born.
1955: J.K. Simmons is born. He played J. Jonah Jameson in the Spiderman movies and provided the voice of General Wade Eiling in Justice League: Unlimited.
1965: Joely Richardson is born. She played Lt. Starck in the godawful Hellraiser/Aliens/Doom/ ripoff Event Horizon.
1968: Joey Lauren Adams is born.
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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