1708: Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.1779: The Army Corps of Engineers is authorized by the US Congress.
1824: The US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845: Henry Jones invents self-raising flour.
1861: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1888: The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the US. 50 inches of snow fell on New England and over 400 people were killed.
1903: Lawrence Welk is born.
1915: JCR Licklider is born. He is the computer scientist who came up with the idea of networking computers.
1916: Ezra Jack Keats is born. He wrote Hi, Cat! among other children's books.
1918: The first confirmed cases of Spanish Flu are diagnosed at Fort Riley, KS.1929: Timothy Carey is born. He played South Dakota Slim in the various Frankie & Annette beach movies.
1931: Rupert Murdoch, media tycoon, is born.
1941: FDR signs the Lend-Lease act into law.1942: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
1950: Bobby McFerrin is born.
1950: Jerry Zucker is born. Here's a scene from Top Secret! which I think is funnier than Airplane!
1952: Douglas Adams is born.
1956: Joey Buttafuoco is born.
1967: John Barrowman is born. He plays the ne'er-do-well time adventurer Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who and Torchwood.
1968: Lisa Loeb is born.
1971: Johnny Knoxville is born. He did those Jackass movies and TV shows where nitwits shoot nails into their groins to impress other nitwits.1982: Thora Birch is born. She was in the laughably bad Dungeons & Dragons movie, although she's actually been in few decent movies like American Beauty.
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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